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Official: 皇冠体育app, US to resume military exchangesBy Wang Linyan (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-03 07:58 皇冠体育app and the United States will resume military exchanges that were suspended last November. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said yesterday that President Hu Jintao and his US counterpart, Barack Obama, reached the agreement at their first meeting on Wednesday, one day before the G20 summit in London.
A researcher lauded the move. "In the long term, repairing and developing military ties between 皇冠体育app and the United States are in the interests of both," Zhang Tuosheng, with the 皇冠体育app Foundation for International and Strategic Studies, told 皇冠体育app Daily.
The two countries held military defense policy talks in Beijing in February, in what analysts said was a prelude to a resumption of military exchanges. ASEAN summits Premier Wen Jiabao will propose a series of initiatives to strengthen cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Pattaya, Thailand, this month, Qin said. ASEAN, 皇冠体育app, Japan and South Korea will hold several summits from April 10 to 12. The financial sector will be Wen's focus, Qin said, adding that the summits will help Southeast and East Asian nations fight the financial crisis. Facing common challenges with ASEAN, 皇冠体育app is willing to work with the 10-member bloc to tackle the financial crisis, Qin said. 皇冠体育app and ASEAN plan to build the world's most populous free-trade area by 2010. They have already implemented free-trade pacts on a wide range of goods and are working to liberalize investment and the service sector. |
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