纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英US and China Restore Military Dialogue
December 22, 2023 2 min 404 words
这则报道反映了中美两国恢复军事对话的消息，无疑是当前国际政治舞台上备受关注的焦点。面对复杂多变的国际形势，双方选择恢复军事对话，体现了理性与务实的一面。然而，关键问题在于这一对话是否能够化解紧张局势、促进相互理解。历史上的敏感时刻和争端留下的阴影仍然存在，需要更多实质性的合作与信任建设。报道提到的具体议题和双方态度，或许是未来双方关系走向的晴雨表。我们期待这次对话是一次务实的交流，而非仅仅是形式上的会谈，从而为国际社会提供更多积极的信号。
The United States and China restored communications between their two militaries on Thursday, as President Biden’s senior military adviser, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, held a videoconference call with his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Liu Zhenli.
The call signaled a significant step in the relationship between two of the world’s most powerful militaries. The Pentagon and the Chinese military have had frosty relations over the past few years amid tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Relations further deteriorated earlier this year after the Pentagon shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the continental United States.
But within days of taking office as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff this fall, General Brown wrote a letter to his Chinese counterpart saying the United States was open to resuming military-to-military communications, which Beijing suspended last year to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
Thursday’s call came a month after Mr. Biden and President Xi Jinping of China agreed to resume the dialogue during a summit in the San Francisco area.
“General Brown discussed the importance of working together to responsibly manage competition, avoid miscalculations and maintain open and direct lines of communication,” Capt. Jereal Dorsey, the spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in an email to reporters.
He said that General Brown “reiterated the importance of the People’s Liberation Army engaging in substantive dialogue to reduce the likelihood of misunderstandings.”
The two military leaders discussed several global and regional security issues, Captain Dorsey said.
China’s defense ministry, in its account of the call, said General Liu stressed that “the key to developing a healthy, stable and sustainable military-to-military relationship is that the United States must have a correct understanding of China.”
A Pentagon report in October accused China’s military of taking increasingly dangerous actions to deter U.S. forces in the Asia-Pacific region, including maneuvers in the skies above the South China Sea intended to intimidate American military aircraft.
Beijing has long bristled at the U.S. military aircraft and ships that operate in international skies and waters near China.
The report also said China was continuing to build up its strategic nuclear arsenal and had probably amassed 500 nuclear warheads as of May, an increase of about 100 over last year’s estimate.