Posted on 12/09/2002 7:52:25 AM PST by tallhappy
2002 Financial Times Information All rights reserved Global News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire Copyright 2002 BBC Monitoring/BBC BBC Monitoring International Reports
December 9, 2002
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HEADLINE: XIONG GUANGKAI TO ATTEND CHINA-US VICE-MINISTERIAL DEFENCE CONSULTATION
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Zhongguo Xinwen She
Washington, 8 December: Today, a PRC People's Republic of China senior military delegation led by Xiong Guangkai, deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, arrived in Washington. China and the United States are set to hold the fifth defence ministry's vice-ministerial defence consultation in Pentagon on 9 December. The Sino-US Defence Ministry's Vice-Ministerial Defence Consultation started in 1997, and the two countries have since agreed to hold the consultation in Beijing and Washington alternately. But the military exchanges between China and the United States have been suspended after a mid-air collision between a Chinese fighter and a US spy plane in 2001. During Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to the United States in October 2002, the two sides agreed to resume military exchanges and carry out the defence ministry's vice-ministerial defence consultation and other exchange projects.
Xiong Guangkai will be the Chinese side's main representative to participate in the consultation held on 9 December, and the US side will be represented by US Under Secretary of Defence Douglas Feith, who is in charge of defence policies.
The Pentagon said the agenda for the consultation will be dominated by non-proliferation, anti-terror, regional security, and other issues of common concern. Besides, China and the United States will exchange views on the relationship between the two countries and their militaries.
The consultation is the first Sino-US defence talks at the vice-ministerial level in nearly two years since US President Bush assumed office. Recently, Sino-US military exchanges have gradually recovered. Recently, the USS Paul F. Foster, a destroyer of the US Navy, made a port call to Qingdao, China.
Source: Zhongguo Xinwen She news agency, Beijing, in Chinese 9 Dec 02
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From http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2002/p12062002_p189-02.html
No. 189-P December 6, 2002
US and China to Hold Defense Consultative Talks
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas J. Feith, will host Defense Consultative Talks with China's People's Liberation Army in Washington on Monday, December 9, 2002.
The Chinese delegation will be led by Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Xiong Guangkai.
The purpose of the meeting is to conduct strategic level dialogue on issues of mutual concern, including proliferation, terrorism and regional security.
Following the talks, Under Secretary Feith will conduct a media availability at 4 p.m. EST in the DoD Briefing Room, Pentagon 2E781. Media without a Pentagon building pass must have proof of affiliation and two forms of photo identification and should be at the River Entrance by 3:30 p.m.
All the articles about this have come from ChiCom sources for the most part. Somehow, despite the press availabilities, I doubt you'll see much coverage of this in the broadcast media.
I particularly hope that the U.S. and Chinese officials will devise new ways to keep our airplanes from colliding. That, at least, would be useful.
yet still, in far, too many cases, things are EXACTLY as they were under "the Great Stainmaker".
ANY ONE OF US WOULD HAVE STOPPED THIS CRAP OUR FIRST DAY IN OFFICE. I really believe, after the previous administration of course, this may be the most incompetent, foolish group of individuals ever to reside in the Oval Office.
The only time China has "common interest" with America is when things are to our disadvantage!!!
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