[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。”
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　　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。. B$ r; R( L( m# j
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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。
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　　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。
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7 v  ?* h( j/ P* MU.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible
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2 J- k. M# {% R! D: g0 v5 gBEIJING — 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.人在德国 社区9 X/ X: c7 z& L8 N" c/ f

' s3 R6 J  F0 i: u/ BHowever, 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.! ~  a8 }. N! W' ^+ H, y( Y
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“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.
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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.
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6 \2 [! W$ h. q( q* N2 @, L, w“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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/ s( s" d) s0 P人在德国 社区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.”
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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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During 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.$ b; n% H( B! j/ z; H1 C
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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.2 U/ w; ~9 F" I1 n

6 `  d' r, U" t; H9 X2 J“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./ j5 Q7 m8 D, f- d7 |8 d1 ~

' ?2 u6 x2 i, x& xDeep 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.! V" g4 i% ~& o3 {* o" G4 D0 p& h
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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.”, f0 |) n0 m( A4 Z
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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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( b( L+ s  ^. BThe 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.5 }1 F  I: b+ V" t& a( Q9 \

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Chairman 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.