From Wall Street Journal: Senior U.S. and Chinese defense officials traded compliments at the start of a two-day summit here, but the two countries remained divided on issues such the future of Iran’s nuclear program. During closed-door meetings with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, high-ranking Chinese officials reacted coolly to U.S. calls for tougher […]
BBC reports that Cao Gangchuan, the vice chairman of Central Military Commission and Minister of National Defense of China, will visit Japan and “meet his newly-installed counterpart, Masahiko Komura, and inspect Japanese Self-Defence Force troops.” …His visit is the first by a Chinese defence minister in over nine years. It is being seen as a […]
From AP, via Houston Chronicle: China has no plans to carry out another test of an anti-satellite weapon, Japan’s former defense chief said Monday, citing a conversation with the Chinese defense minister. Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan‘s reported remarks are the latest attempt by Beijing to tamp down criticism over last month’s test, in which […]
From the Washington Post (link): Adm. William J. Fallon, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, flashed what aides described as a broad grin as he sat in the cockpit of a twin-engine FB-7 fighter-bomber, China’s most advanced domestically produced warplane. “They really went out of their way to accommodate nearly everything I wanted to […]
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