US General to China: We can share the Pacific

Top US General To China: We Can Share The Pacific

Let's play nice, okay?

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Top US General To China: We Can Share The Pacific

By Geoffrey Ingersoll | Business Insider – 3 hours ago

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Top U.S. General Martin Dempsey thinks China and the U.S. can play nice in the Pacific. “The Pacific Ocean is wide enough to accommodate us both,” he said at a joint news conference Monday in Beijing. “We should be cooperating partners regardless of the circumstances.”
Dempsey visited Beijing in the context of a troubling nuclear North Korea and an increasingly nervous China. Aside from nukes, America's (loudly proclaimed) pacific pivot and Mandiant's report on Chinese espionage  are among two other things looming above Washington-Beijing relations.
As if to make matters more stark, China released its bi-yearly white paper which directly referenced the U.S. in the opening remarks.
"The US is adjusting its Asia-Pacific security strategy, and the regional landscape is undergoing profound changes," the paper says.
Then, oddly enough, the following line pops up a few graphs down, "Some country has strengthened its Asia-Pacific military alliances, expanded its military presence in the region, and frequently makes the situation there tenser."
Certainly some country refers to Washington, and 'tenser' has been widely interpreted as causing destabilization.
So Dempsey's comments spoke directly to those concerns.
“We seek to be a stabilizing influence in the region,” Dempsey said at a joint news conference with Fang Fenghui, the chief of the People’s Liberation Army general staff.
But he made sure that his kindness was not taken without awareness of China's growing military might — with cyber security, there came a warning.
“Cybersecurity, if it is uncontrolled, the effects can be, and I don’t exaggerate, at times no less than a nuclear bomb,” he said.
Dempsey wrapped up his comments by reaffirming Washington's strength with regard to North Korea, and resolve in the face of bitter island disputes China has recently had with Japan.


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