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Perry for Asia-Pacific forum to head off military crises
WASHINGTON. Feb 14: Defence chiefs of China. Japan, the United States and other Asia-Pacific nations should meet regularly to promote understanding and head off military crises. Defence Secretary william Perry said Tuesday, reports AP.
Perry’s suggestion comes at a time of increased military tensions in the region, including what Perry has called China's attempts to intimidate Taiwan through large military exercises.
This week, strains also developed between Japan and South Korea over control of a group of islands
Perry said Aslan nations could use as a model the Partnership for Peace forum In Europe, which aims to promote Western military cooperation with Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union without issuing formal security guarantees.
"1 suggest we consider convening a defence ministerial of the Asia-Pacific re-
gion Perry said. He did not propose a place or time for such a meeting.
The United States has formal defence commitments to Japan. South Korea, the Philippines Thailand and Australia, but no single multinational forum exists where regional security issues are discussed.
Perry devoted much of his speech to US relations with China, strained over a range of problems including trade, nuclear technology and human rights.
He rejected the call by some In Congress, particularly Republicans, to confront China over issues such as Taiwan and China's sales of sensitive nuclear technologies to Pakistan and other na tlons
Afterward Perry’s spokesman. Kenneth Bacon, said an unspecified number of Chinese troops and military equipment are moving toward the coastal area facing
Taiwan.
Reuter from Washington adds: In a hard-hitting Asia policy speech. U8 Defence Secretary William Perry on Tuesday accused China of failing to fulfil Its promise to become a responsible world power
The State Department and Pentagon also urged Beijing not to engage in threats against Taiwan as Taipei said 150.000 mainland trftops were gathering for manoeuvres on China's east coast ahead of Taiwan s March 23 presidential election.
"|t is time for China to start sending the right message." Perry told a symposium on US-China-Taiwan relations in a speech at Fort Mcnair in Washington
He urged communist China and democratic Taiwan. which Beijing regards as a wayward province, to settle their differences peacefully Those differences have flared in the run-up to Taiwan s
election
Washington has expressed concern over recent Chinese military manoeuvres in waters between China and Taiwan and reports that China might launch a^ attack after Taipei s presidential vote
Defence Department spokesman Ken Bacon told reporters that the Pentagon had seen reports of current movements of Chinese troops and military equipment to the coast near the Taiwan strait and that it leads us to lielieve there will be a large military exercise In that area
He noted that Perry had urged both sides to refrain from provocative acts in the region and that we assume that it (Chinese exercise) will be carried out with good judgment and dispatch if it is carried out."
State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said Washington was keeping a close watch on the situation.