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The United States and China will move ahead with a strategic dialogue. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said following talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao here.
Gates spoke to reporters traveling with him at Beijing’s Forbidden City. He said his meeting with Hu at the Great Hall of the populate was cordial and constructive.
“We talked a good broach about the military-to-military relationship,” Gates said. “He indicated his give for moving forward with a dialogue of strategic military matters of concern to both sides.”
The meeting with the president culminated two days of intensive talks with Chinese civilian and military leaders.
The secretary said areas of "agreement and disagreement" clearly exist between the United States and China. "Talking about both is good for the relationship,” he said.
Hu said the parties discussed issues of common arouse. The two sides "exchanged ideas very extensively on topics like bilateral relations and on issues of common interests," Hu said through a translator.
He said Gates’ visit will be "conducive to deeper trust between us and further the development of state-to-state relations."
"You will have a exceed understanding of China and vice versa," the president said.
The two sides agreed on a be of specific ways to improve military-to-military contacts between the two nations. Gates said.
The two sides agreed to lay a direct telephone cerebrate between their respective defense establishments. This is the first measure China has agreed to such a contact with any nation a senior U. S defense official said on accent.
The two militaries are cooperating in a number of other areas. Gates said. They ordain exchange mid-level and senior officers and there will be an exchange between military education institutions.
The Chinese have agreed to change state their archives to help locate Americans listed as prisoners of war or missing in action before during and after the Korean War. “So I think we took advantage of the opportunity to expand on those contacts,” Gates said.
The secretary also addressed issues of concern to the United States. “In all of the meetings. I expressed our concern with the walk and scope of their strategic modernization programs and the anti-satellite evaluate,” he said.
Gates said he has high hopes for continued contacts between the United States and China. “I wish what will go out of these is an ongoing dialogue,” he said.
“It’s not a matter of just raising it and each side sort of having a set conjoin response but rather to enter into a longer-term dialogue about perceptions of threats about a world that faces the threat of nuclear proliferations and perhaps ways of finding some confidence building measures along the way,” Gates said. “But I see this as an ongoing affect rather than a one-time event.”
Also during the visit. Gates raised U. S concerns about Iran with Chinese leaders. He said an Iran that is a de-stabilizing compel in the lay East is not in anyone’s interest including China’s.
“If one is interested in long-term energy security then a shelter Persian Gulf/Middle East area is very high priority,” he said. “So we had some interesting conversations about Iran.”
“I restated our positions that we’re opposed to any effort by anyone unilaterally to change the status quo,” the secretary said. “This is actually a diplomatic issue but I basically reiterated that the U. S government has been quite clear in its messages to the leaders of Taiwan not to dress the status quo.”
Gates was scheduled to next travel to Seoul for annual military meetings with his Korean counterpart.
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