Chinese President Hu Jintao, has confirmed today to Secretary of U.S. Defense, Robert Gates, who made the first flight test of the ultra-modern stealth fighter. Using this type of fighter shows that China has shortened considerably the difference in advanced weaponry over the U.S.. The test on this game, which could potentially be detected by the radars, there has been in southwest China, in the city of Cgdu.Gates wanted to know if this test had been timed to coincide with his visit to China, as a show of strength of the Asian giant to Washington, but Hu has ensured that it was planned beforehand. There is a rising rivalry between the two countries, although the two major world powers-the United States and China-trying to build bridges, on the eve of the trip that President Hu Jintao next week to the United States.
Gates and his Chinese counterpart, General Liang Guanglie, yesterday played down the military rivalry between the two countries and said they have increased cooperation, dialogue and exchanges between their militaries to avoid missteps. "We shared a conviction that the possibilities to reduce communication problems, misunderstandings and miscalculations is important that our military to military ties are strong, consistent and not subject to shifting political winds," Gates said yesterday.
Liang, who is Minister of Defense said they had agreed that "contacts continued and reliable military military help reduce misunderstandings and miscalculations." The use of identical terms by both politicians reveals how lack of trust defines the relationships between the armies of the two powers.
The U.S. secretary of state said that the lack of military contacts could magnify some risks. The presence of U.S. ships and has conducted naval maneuvers near Chinese waters have angered Beijing in recent years, and in 2001 the crash of an American spy plane with a Chinese fighter jet sparked a sharp diplomatic dispute .
One of the most sensitive is the U.S. support to Taiwan, de facto independent island, which China considers part of its territory. Beijing suspended military relations with the United States a year ago for selling arms to Taipei Washington valued at 6,400 million dollars (about 4.945 million euros).
For years, U.S. officials have tried to establish a permanent security dialogue with Beijing, which were alien to political disputes, but Chinese leaders have preferred to maintain military ties as a bargaining chip, and Gates's proposal to create a " strategic dialogue ", focused on nuclear weapons, missiles and ciberarmamento, have been limited to say the study.
Threat from North Korea Following a meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Gates has warned that North Korea is becoming a direct threat to the U.S. and that country could build an intercontinental ballistic missile within five years. But he pointed to the media that do not think it will store a large number of such missiles, but would have a limited capacity.
"I think North Korea will have developed in that period of time an intercontinental ballistic missile, but will not have much or anything," he predicted. "I think we have a very limited capacity," he added. The North Korean arsenal includes intermediate-range missiles that could impact on targets that are within a distance of 3,000 kilometers, according to a South Korean official quoted last year by the Yonhap news agency.
These missiles could reach any point in the territory of Japan and endanger U.S. military bases on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.
- Gates back in China for military talks - Washington Post (11/01/2011)
- 'Extraordinary opportunity' - Gates seeks better ties with China (10/01/2011)
- Robert Gates in China: 'Consensus' despite Taiwan - BBC News (11/01/2011)
- American and Chinese Defense leaders desire stronger military ties (11/01/2011)
- China and America: A second Cold War? (10/01/2011)
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