Amid Tensions in Asia, U.S.-China Military Ties Improve

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• July 22, 2014, 2:33 PM HKT

Amid Tensions in Asia, U.S.-China Military Ties Improve

U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, right, speaks with China’s Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Wu Shengli during a welcoming ceremony in Beijing.
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China is seeking greater access to U.S. aircraft carriers and guidance on how to operate its own first carrier, the Liaoning, testing the limits of a newly cooperative military relationship the two sides have tried to cultivate in the past year. As the WSJ’s Jeremy Page reports:

The latest Chinese request came last week when U.S. Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, chief of naval operations, visited China to explore new areas of cooperation, despite recent maritime tensions and the presence of an uninvited Chinese spy ship at naval drills off Hawaii.

China’s navy chief, Adm. Wu Shengli, suggested the U.S. should bring the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier based in Japan, to a mainland Chinese port and allow the crew of the Liaoning to take a tour, according to Adm. Greenert.

“Admiral Wu wants to work on that,” Adm. Greenert told The Wall Street Journal in an interview at the end of his trip, which included a tour of the Liaoning.

“He’d like his crew to get a tour of the George Washington and have the George Washington crew, a gaggle of them, come to the Liaoning,” he said. “I’m receptive to that idea.”

A U.S. carrier’s visit to China—possibly Shanghai—could happen within a year if Adm. Wu formally proposed it and won support for the idea from policy makers on both sides, he said.

China’s defense ministry didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The carrier discussions highlight a counterintuitive trend in China-U.S. relations: Military ties are improving, especially between the navies, even as China seeks to enforce maritime claims in Asia that are contested by neighbors, including U.S. allies.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Americans are just too smart, first they're trying to contain China by cozying nations that hostile to China and at the same time they're doing the necessities to appease China from taking counter measure to challenge American's interests elsewhere.

...very interesting

 

[gambit]

Americans are just too smart, first they're trying to contain China by cozying nations that hostile to China and at the same time they're doing the necessities to appease China from taking counter measure to challenge American's interests elsewhere.

...very interesting

Like I said before many times over: The US military is a better student and practitioner of Sun Tzu than China is.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Like I said before many times over: The US military is a better student and practitioner of Sun Tzu than China is.

LOL, Americans still not learning the 14th chapter of Sun Tzu, we Chineses are keeping exclusively for ourself

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Like I said before many times over: The US military is a better student and practitioner of Sun Tzu than China is.

And that's our problem. We come up with things like Sun Tzu, guns/firearms, artillery, explosives, rockets, yet it's the foreigners who take these ideas and utilize them properly.

But that is in the process of changing. China is no longer sleeping like we were for the past two centuries, waking up is a slow but necessary process.

 

[Musafir117]

And that's our problem. We come up with things like Sun Tzu, guns/firearms, artillery, explosives, rockets, yet it's the foreigners who take these ideas and utilize them properly.

But that is in the process of changing. China is no longer sleeping like we were for the past two centuries, waking up is a slow but necessary process.

The awakening of China is a good thing as regional and international power balance was much needed, my personal views is that china better stay neutral between the Cold War of USA and Russia, it's no need to side anyone.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

The awakening of China is a good thing as regional and international power balance was much needed, my personal views is that china better stay neutral between the Cold War of USA and Russia, it's no need to side anyone.

Stay neutral is not alway a good solution when American is forming a strong alliance to contain us, until now China still not explore the option of forming alliance...nor Russia express the desire but Sino-Russian military exercices, creation of SCO and good coordination between China-Russia in international issues did sent some signals to Americans about the possibility of could be happened.

 

[cnleio]

Good for both.

Like I said before many times over: The US military is a better student and practitioner of Sun Tzu than China is.

At least to learn Chinese first, “好战必亡，忘战必危”

 

[BoQ77]

China trying to learn from USA ?

 

[somsak]

up up down down they play around like stock market.
Both sides stay to gain. Yet they are zero-sum.