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Xi says ties with US improving
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September 20, 2012, Thursday
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VICE President Xi Jinping yesterday expressed the hope that Chinese and US defense authorities can remove barriers and enhance mutual trust.
Through joint efforts, China-US military ties have maintained the momentum of development and improvement since the beginning of the year, Xi told US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
Military relations constitute an important part of bilateral ties, Xi said, noting that bilateral ties had scored important achievements, with dialogue, contact and cooperation reaching new highs.
Panetta said the US strategic rebalancing in the Asia-Pacific region is aimed at promoting regional stability, peace and prosperity, and developing a constructive relationship between the US and China is a key condition to this end.
It was good to see that US-China state-to-state and military ties had seen positive progress in recent years, Panetta said, expressing hopes for enhancing dialogue and cooperation with China and building a strong relationship between the two major powers.
After two days of meetings with political and military officials, Panetta said he was hopeful that the two nations could work together to bolster security in the region.
Panetta said he believed he had assured his hosts that US plans to add troops, ships and a new missile defense site in the region were not a threat to China.
Panetta's time in China was focused on slowly repairing America's long troubled military relationship with China and opening the door for better communications so the two nations can avoid misunderstandings.
He spent much of his time explaining the US military's new shift to the Pacific, which has fueled worries of increased tensions or conflict with China.
In a speech to Chinese troops yesterday, he said that the growing American presence in the region included an effort to build a stronger relationship with China.
"Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is not an attempt to contain China. It is an attempt to engage China and expand its role in the Pacific," Panetta said in a speech to cadets and young officers at the Engineering Academy of PLA Armored Forces.
"It is about creating a new model in the relationship of two Pacific powers."
He told the academy gathering that America's future security and prosperity would be linked to Asia more than any other place in the world, but that it was also a region threatened by terrorism, nuclear proliferation, piracy and natural disasters.
Through joint efforts, China-US military ties have maintained the momentum of development and improvement since the beginning of the year, Xi told US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
Military relations constitute an important part of bilateral ties, Xi said, noting that bilateral ties had scored important achievements, with dialogue, contact and cooperation reaching new highs.
Panetta said the US strategic rebalancing in the Asia-Pacific region is aimed at promoting regional stability, peace and prosperity, and developing a constructive relationship between the US and China is a key condition to this end.
It was good to see that US-China state-to-state and military ties had seen positive progress in recent years, Panetta said, expressing hopes for enhancing dialogue and cooperation with China and building a strong relationship between the two major powers.
After two days of meetings with political and military officials, Panetta said he was hopeful that the two nations could work together to bolster security in the region.
Panetta said he believed he had assured his hosts that US plans to add troops, ships and a new missile defense site in the region were not a threat to China.
Panetta's time in China was focused on slowly repairing America's long troubled military relationship with China and opening the door for better communications so the two nations can avoid misunderstandings.
He spent much of his time explaining the US military's new shift to the Pacific, which has fueled worries of increased tensions or conflict with China.
In a speech to Chinese troops yesterday, he said that the growing American presence in the region included an effort to build a stronger relationship with China.
"Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is not an attempt to contain China. It is an attempt to engage China and expand its role in the Pacific," Panetta said in a speech to cadets and young officers at the Engineering Academy of PLA Armored Forces.
"It is about creating a new model in the relationship of two Pacific powers."
He told the academy gathering that America's future security and prosperity would be linked to Asia more than any other place in the world, but that it was also a region threatened by terrorism, nuclear proliferation, piracy and natural disasters.
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