Posted on 06/26/2002 7:06:21 AM PDT by maui_hawaii
BEIJING, June 26 — A top Pentagon official met with Chinese army commanders Wednesday to explore resuming military exchanges, which were curtailed last year after the seizure of a U.S. spy plane.
U.S. Defense Department officials said last week that Peter Rodman, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, would tell Chinese officials that such exchanges must be more beneficial to the United States.
Contacts have included academic conferences, exchanges of students and visits to military installations. They were limited after a Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. Navy surveillance plane collided over the South China Sea on April 1, 2001 and China detained the American crew.
Rodman met Wednesday with Vice Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and the chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, Xiong Guangkai, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.
It said Rodman was to meet Defense Minister Chi Haotian, a Chinese army general, on Thursday.
''The talks dealt candidly with problems that had arisen in the past,'' the statement said, without giving any details.
Rodman's visit wasn't intended to produce any immediate agreements and discussions were to continue, it added.
On Tuesday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the two sides hoped to ''narrow their differences through contacts and dialogue based on respect, equality and reciprocity.''
However, spokesman Liu Jianchao said China and the United States had different expectations toward such exchanges due to ''different environments and views on the principles.''
Chinese military doctrine will not permit such a thing as allowing the Americans to see and guage what they have...
Does the US military doctrine allow Chinese to see and guage what they have ?
The Art of War.
Thats been the biggest complaint out of Washington... we show things to the Chinese, but they don't reciprocate...
The doctrine is complex but basically based around the idea of 'preventing miscalculations'...
Historically I have never seen Chinese ever underestimated the US military power. However the US underestimatd the Chinese in many occassions. You don't even know how many nuclear warheads China has.
All war is deception...its psychological warfare.
They are not relying on defense, they are relying on offense...they want be able to attack Taiwan, and create fear and intimidation...
In reality China has a '5 minute Navy'...
Actually you don't have to go to their barracks to learn about them. History tells everything.
Unfortunately Chinese have been doing it for 5,000 years. You should have known the difference between the cultures of the East and West.
With that being said, the CCP creates its own versions of things, then believes it as 'truth'...then riles the people up to nationalistic anger...
That alone, relying on half truths or lies, and not trying to understand the outside, and the beligerance makes China dangerous no matter how big the navy is...
Having more nukes just makes it worse...thats one reason why I don't believe nor like the US based panda hugging community...
That's not true. Chinese are eager to know and have exchanges with the outside world. Also Chinese learn things fast from the outside.
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So why were you allowed to access FR? Guanxi?
People who put a real face on 'China' and talks about China honestly, and discusses problems with candor... oh, THAT envokes anger among a lot of Chinese...
Chinese desire to know or be known by the outside is only half hearted and always has been.
Not everythng works in China, right? You may like Chinese egg rolls, but you may not like Chinese snake soup or turtle soup.
>>People who put a real face on 'China' and talks about China honestly, and discusses problems with candor... oh, THAT envokes anger among a lot of Chinese...
I believe you are welcome among Chinese if you don't talk things in a condesending, or colonialist or missionary way.
>>Chinese desire to know or be known by the outside is only half hearted and always has been.
To be eager to know the outside doesn't mean they will buy everythong from the outside. Japanese are another example.
I'm totally opposed to the Internet censorship by the Chiense government.
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