通灵游戏真实事件视频:Flexing US Muscles in Asia: Gates in Shangri

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Flexing US Muscles in Asia: Gates in Shangri-La

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Gates' Last Visit to Shangri-La Dialogue


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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will participate in the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore this week.

This is the secretary’s fifth and final trip to the Shangri-La Dialogue, an Asia security summit sponsored by the International Institute of Strategic Studies. The secretary is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with a number of defense ministers, including Gen. Liang Guanglie of China and Toshima Kitazawa of Japan.


A Gates speech on the conference agenda will be his last as defense secretary in Asia, and he will talk about what he has seen, what has changed, and what he has seen that remains consistent, the official said. The secretary retires June 30 after more than four and a half years in office.


“He’s going to talk in greater detail than he has in the past about what we in [the Defense Department] are doing to make that more tangible,” the official said.


This is the first time the Chinese have sent a defense minister to Shangri-La, and U.S. officials are pleased with the decision.


“I know Secretary Gates very much looks forward to having a conversation with General Liang about how we continue to build on the positive momentum that exists in the military-to-military relationship,” another senior defense official said. Gates will continue to discuss with the Chinese why it is important to have a healthy, stable, reliable and continuous military-to-military relationship, he added.


The secretary also wants to talk about following up on the Strategic Security Dialogue the two initiated during Gates’ visit to Beijing in January. It is a joint civilian and military dialogue to address a number of sensitive security issues, including nuclear and missile defense, space, and cyber.


All this together is an opportunity to show the consistency of U.S. policy and reassure the Asian allies that even though Gates is retiring, “there will be continuity in defense policy with the next secretary,” the official said.



"Attention on Asia not Distracted"


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Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes off for his last official trip to Asia today, aiming to underscore the region's prominent place on the U.S. agenda and to urge China to strengthen ties regardless of disagreements.


He'll detail measures by the Pentagon to reinforce American staying power in the region, U.S. defense officials said, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity. The defense chief will try to show that crises in the Middle East and North Africa aren't distracting the Obama administration from Asia, the official said.


Gates has "been pretty resolute in the way that he has reiterated that the United States is an inherent Asia-Pacific power," said Tim Huxley, director for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which is hosting the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore later this week. Huxley credits Gates with saying "things that have been important for the U.S. to say, at a time when the regional distribution of power is clearly in a state of flux."


Gates is the latest of a stream of U.S. officials visiting Asia as the Obama administration comes to grips with China's rise. The Chinese military's modernization, which the U.S. sees as a potential threat, and territorial disputes between China and its neighbors around the South China Sea, have raised tensions.



"Appeasing the Worries"


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AP – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, left, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.



Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to reassure anxious allies in Asia this week that the US military will maintain a strong presence in the region despite budget pressures at home, officials said.


The Pentagon chief will address the allies' concerns "head on" at a security conference this week in Singapore, said a senior defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.


As Washington moves to tackle a ballooning deficit and debt, Asian allies fear a scaling back of the US military's role just as China's armed forces take a more assertive stance, defense officials said.


"There's no doubt that the region has that concern, and I think it's one that we're well aware of, and hence it's one the secretary will want to address," the official told reporters.


Gates, who departs Tuesday on his global tour, will seek "to assure the region that we will maintain our commitments in the region and that we have both the capability in addition to the will to do so," the official said. (DoD/Bloomberg/AFP)





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