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Communist China: U.S. Defense Secretary Gates calls for lasting military dialogue with China

Reuters: U.S. calls for lasting military dialogue with China

Reuters: “Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for lasting dialogue with China’s military after years of ‘on-again, off-again’ talks as he welcomed a top Chinese general to the Pentagon on Tuesday. The 75-minute meeting between Gates and Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the People’s Liberation Army Central Military Commission, represented the highest-level visit by a Chinese military official since 2006.”

—- Note: Same Defense Secretary Gates who calls for “engagement” with the Taliban