VOA:美国舰队司令要求重开中美军事会谈
【原文标题】US Admiral Calls for Renewed US-China Military Talks【链接】http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-19-voa63.cfm
【翻译】pinpoint
【译文】
美国舰队司令要求重开中美军事会谈
美军太平洋战区最高军事指挥官周四说中国最近的行动使他对该国的战略意图感到困惑。他要求重启军事交流来澄清这个问题。
美国海军司令提摩西基廷告诉参议院军事委员会他要求中国结束冻结军事接触。在去年十月美对台军售后中国强行冻结了军事接触。
基廷称这是解决像上周发生的冲突之类的事件的唯一途径。当时五艘中国舰船干扰危害了在南中国海国际水域的美海军探测船“无瑕号”。
“‘无瑕号’事件令人不安地表明中国，尤其在南中国海，做出攻击性的，令人不安的举动，他们不愿遵守可接受的行为准则和航行规则。”他说。
但基廷同时也提到中国正在与美国领导的国际海军特遣部队在东非亚丁湾合作打击海盗。他称中国这两种不同形式的行为令人困惑。
“对我们而言，这是矛盾的，令人困惑的。这是需要刨根问底的问题：他们的真正意图是什么？他们的战略意图是什么？中国期待10年，20年，50年后到哪里？”他问道。
周三，美国国防部长罗伯特盖茨称他希望不再发生无瑕号事件，并希望事件发生后的外交接触能提升两国关系。
“我对该事件的担心之一是在我的印象中，两军关系在稳步前进，我想要看到我们把这件事放到身后，不再有类似事情，同时推进双方关系。”他说。
但在周四的参院军事委员会听证会上，基廷说最近的争论拖延了他去年早些时候所说的在中美军事关系中取得“真正进展”的时间。他说无瑕号事件、军事关系的冻结以及其他中国最近的行动表明双边军事关系远未达到他所希望的高度。
“这些生动的事例提醒我们在今天一个成熟的、建设性的两军关系几乎不可能成为现实。中华人民共和国尚未始终如一地做出作为一个负责任的利益攸关方的行为。”他补充道。
基廷司令同时表示海峡两岸的紧张关系已有所缓和。这很大程度上是由于台湾新总统采用的更加温和的政策。但他说尽管中国军力远远落后于美国，他依然对中国日益增长的军力感到担忧。他还表示没有迹象表明对中国造成重大影响的全球经济低迷会放缓中国军事现代化的步伐。
【原文】
US Admiral Calls for Renewed US-China Military Talks
By Al Pessin
Washington
19 March 2009
The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific region said Thursday that recent Chinese actions have confused him about that country's strategic intentions and he called for a resumption of military exchanges to help clear up the issue.
U.S. Navy Admiral Timothy Keating told the Senate Armed Services Committee he wants China to end the freeze in military contacts it imposed after a U.S. arms sale to Taiwan last October.
Keating said that is the only way to work through incidents such as the one last week, when five Chinese ships harassed and endangered the U.S. Navy research vessel Impeccable in international waters in the South China Sea.
"The Impeccable incident is certainly a troubling indicator that China, particularly in the South China Sea, is behaving in an aggressive, troublesome manner, and they're not willing to abide by acceptable standards of behavior or rules of the road," he said.
But at the same time, Keating noted that China is cooperating with the international naval task force led by the United States to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden, off the east coast of Africa. The admiral said the two types of Chinese behavior are confusing.
"It's conflicting to us and it's confusing. And this goes to the root issue of what are, really, their intentions. What is their strategic intent? Where does China expect to be 10, 20, 50 years from now?" He asked.
On Wednesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hopes the Impeccable incident will not be repeated and that diplomatic contacts that followed will improve relations.
"One of the concerns that I have about Impeccable is that my impression was that the military-to-military relationship was steadily improving. And I would like to see us put this behind us, not have another incident like it and continue that improvement in the relationship," he said.
But at Thursday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Admiral Keating said that recent disagreements have stalled what he called "real headway" made in U.S.-China military relations early last year. He said the Impeccable incident, the freeze in military relations and other recent Chinese actions indicate that the bilateral military relationship is far from where he would like it to be.
"Those are vivid reminders that a mature, constructive mil-to-mil relationship is hardly the reality today and the PRC's behavior as a responsible stakeholder has yet to be consistently demonstrated," he added.
Admiral Keating also said tensions have eased across the Taiwan Strait, thanks in large part to more moderate policies adopted by the island's new president. But the admiral said he is concerned about China's growing military capability, even though he said it is still far behind that of the United States. And he said he has seen no sign that the global economic downturn, which is having a significant impact in China, will slow the country's military modernization program.
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