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US army seeks disaster relief drill with China: general
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 24, 2009 US army chief of staff General George Casey said Monday he wished to improve ties with China's military and would draft plans for a joint disaster relief exercise. Casey, who reportedly had a tense meeting with Chinese military leaders last week, said humanitarian missions should be one of the ways to enhance ties between Washington and Beijing. "It is a way to begin discussions between our two countries," said Casey, who is visiting Japan this week for meetings and seminars involving military leaders and senior officials from Asia-Pacific nations. "We had some good discussions (with) my Chinese counterparts about our future with our military-to-military relationship," he told a press conference at the Tokyo event focused on disaster relief. "And one of the areas they suggested was to work on a humanitarian assistance-disaster relief exercise that we will do bilaterally. "When I return, I intend to begin the process of building an exercise like that," he said. A meeting last Thursday between Casey and General Ge Zhenfeng, deputy chief of the People's Liberation Army's general staff, "turned rancorous", the New York Times reported. Ge gave a "sharp lecture on the failure of the United States to respect China's interests" and Casey rebutted the argument, the newspaper said, citing a witness and a report by the Xinhua news agency. The Tokyo event, designed to discuss international military cooperation in the area of disaster relief, included a conference for Asia-Pacific army chiefs and a separate seminar programme for senior military officials. China sent participants to the senior officials' programmes, but not to the army chiefs' event. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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