[中国新闻] 中美商建军事热线 以增加沟通消除误解

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正在中国访问的美军参谋长联席会议主席彼得·佩斯23日在北京举行的新闻发布会上表示，他与中国军方领导商谈了建立美中军事热线一事。“希望通过军事热线，增加双方沟通的机会，减少误判，消除误解。”3 ?; r0 d7 b3 a5 B1 B5 g6 B& y

1 l' [. M3 _) \　　佩斯是应中央军委委员、中国人民解放军总参谋长梁光烈的邀请，于22日开始对中国为期4天的正式访问。中央军委副主席郭伯雄，中央军委副主席、国务委员兼国防部长曹刚川22日分别会见了佩斯。梁光烈与佩斯举行了会谈。
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　　佩斯说，他们讨论了通过其他途径增进两军间的信任，比如，互相观摩军事演习，共同参加人道主义救援，增加军官交流等。- }% S+ z3 c" k3 Y) a$ W6 W. w

: ~' C6 ^' R( p5 R; q$ Z9 ~' O4 R4 mrs238848.rs.hosteurope.de　　佩斯一行是今年访华的第一个美国高级军事代表团，也是佩斯2005年就任美军参联会主席以来首次访华。人在德国 社区6 M- r9 x8 o0 F' Q/ t% T
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U.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible
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BEIJING — China's military is proposing officer exchanges and other confidence-building measures with the U.S. Army and may be inching closer to setting up a “hotline” for emergency communication with Washington, the top U.S. general said Friday.
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" H2 y  Z* I+ y3 \# d+ SHowever, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he received no new information in meetings with Chinese military chiefs about Beijing's test of an anti-satellite weapon in January that raised concern in Washington. He said he continued to press China's generals for more transparency about the aims of their military buildup.: p  I% Z" p8 f* H; L6 d

" R/ B1 }4 o- P; X  G3 Prs238848.rs.hosteurope.de“I used the example of the anti-satellite test as how sometimes the international community can be confused, because it was a surprise that China did that, and it wasn't clear what their intent was,” Gen. Pace said.4 {8 \. Y$ y. m- Y
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Gen. Pace said he immediately agreed to study the proposals put forward Friday by Gen. Liang Guanglie, chief of the PLA's General Staff Department. Liang's move suggested a departure from the skepticism with which the highly secretive People's Liberation Army has long regarded co-operation with the U.S. military.人在德国 社区& D" ~) W9 ^; }' n/ G+ B2 t, {' F8 u) j

3 K8 }$ u3 \: d, y& t% s! k% ^“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.
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Gen. Liang's proposals included sending Chinese cadets to the Army academy at West Point as well as participating in joint exercises and humanitarian and relief-at-sea operations “that might be able to build trust and confidence amongst our forces.”$ f* F! y: c/ |2 A8 d
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Military exchanges were largely suspended following a collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter over the South China Sea in 2001. The Chinese pilot was killed and the U.S. crew held captive after making an emergency landing at a Chinese air base.
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* G" q+ j7 o2 N% R, m8 ZDuring that crisis, communication between the sides was spotty and at times non-existent, largely because Washington had no direct channel of communications with the Chinese leadership.
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Gen. Pace said the sides agreed to keep discussing setting up a “hotline” between either military or civilian leaders that would help ease any future friction.
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* g- p, d& B" P# x8 {% _“The Chinese military understands as well as I do that the opportunity to pick up the phone and talk to somebody you know and smooth out misunderstandings quickly is a very important part of relations between two countries,” Gen. Pace said.
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Deep mistrust remains, however, particularly over Washington's close military ties with Japan and commitment to help ensure the defence of Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers its own territory and which it has threatened to use force to recover.; G& d6 W; y7 H

) l: P' v1 V* U6 y' d人在德国 社区China has complained about U.S. plans to sell a batch of more than 400 missiles to Taiwan, but Gen. Pace said he had no details and didn't indicate whether the deal was mentioned in discussions.
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Asked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.”人在德国 社区6 o: d4 d2 t! A# d" g3 C
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The general didn't say how the Chinese officers responded to his calls for more transparency. China raised its military budget by 17.8 per cent this year to about $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high.
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The spending boost and January's satellite test, in which China became only the third country to destroy an object in space by pulverizing one of its own unused satellites with a missile warhead, heightened the sense of unease in Washington over China's 2.3 million-member armed forces.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de5 O0 T/ k* n: H6 q/ |; F

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& \1 o" Y) M8 sChairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace inspects the guard of honor during a welcome ceremony at the Defence Ministry in Beijing March 22, 2007.