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原文地址：U.S. and Chinese military commanders hold rare phone call to avoid miscalculation
新闻日期：2024-09-10
美军印太司令与中国人民解放军南方战区司令首次电话会谈
美国印太司令部宣布，美国印太司令帕佩罗（Admiral Samuel Paparo）周一与中国人民解放军南方战区司令吴延安将军进行了第一次电话会谈。
帕佩罗在电话中强调，高级领导人的沟通对避免误判和错误判断非常重要。
在电话会谈期间，帕佩罗还批评中国军方“多次与美国盟国进行不安全的互动”，并要求中国遵守国际法，在南海及其他地区采用更安全、非强制且不会引发紧张的战术。近期来，这类事件在菲律宾南海及其它地区不断出现，包括中国军舰向菲律宾船只开水炮或发生碰撞。
美国国务院发言人也指出，中国多次“干扰”菲律宾在南海的空中和海上作业，“美方呼吁中国遵守国际法并停止危险和不稳定的行为”。
原文摘要：
The head of all U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific spoke to a Chinese counterpart for the first time in years, according to a statement from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.The video call between the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific command Admiral Samuel Paparo and Gen. Wu Yanan, the commander of the People’s Liberation Army’s Southern Theater Command, on Monday was the first call between leaders in that position for several years. Paparo, according to the readout, spoke of how the importance of communication “between senior leaders serve to clarify intent and reduce the risk of misperception or miscalculation.”Paparo only took over as commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in May 2024, but his predecessor Admiral John Aquilino has said he tried for three years to get a meeting with his counterpart so that the two militaries could work to avoid any miscalculations in the region. Military-to-military communications broke down significantly between the U.S. and China after Nancy Pelosi, then the House Speaker, visited to Taiwan in August 2022 and continued through the Chinese spy balloon incident in February 2023, when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin tried to reach his Chinese counterpart over the phone but couldn’t get him on the line. Resuming military to military communications was a key goal President Biden and President Xi Jinping agreed to work toward following their November 2023 summit in San Francisco. Since then, Austin has spoken over the phone and met in person with his Chinese counterpart, and the top U.S. military officer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown has spoken to his counterpart. But the concern over miscalculation stems from activities in the Indo-Pacific. In the call Monday, according to the readout, Paparo said there should be more discussions in the future between the two leaders to “clarify intent and reduce the risk of misperception or miscalculation.” He also called out the Chinese military for “several unsafe interactions with U.S. allies” and asked China to abide by international law and to reconsider its “dangerous, coercive, and potentially escalatory tactics in the South China Sea and beyond.” There have recently been several instances between the Philippines and China in the South China sea when Chinese ships fired water cannons at Philippine vessels or collided with them.The State Department said in a statement at the end of August that multiple times throughout the month, China has “aggressively disrupted lawful Philippine aerial and maritime operations in the South China Sea, including at Sabina Shoal.” The State Department said the U.S. “reiterates its call” for China to “comport its claims and actions with international law and to desist from dangerous and destabilizing conduct.”
