Dado importante nas Relações Internacionais atuais: os Estados Unidos e a China têm a nível econômico um virtual acordo, agora buscam aproximação militar. Permanecem divergências na configuração monetária (taxas de câmbio, por exemplo) e em matérias de Direitos Humanos.
Estados Unidos e China possuem respectivamente o primeiro e segundo maiores PIB's mundiais.
Sobre a relação militar, o New York Times publicou a seguinte noticia esta manhã:
BEIJING — A top United States military commander said Saturday that the U.S. Army is working on starting a formal dialogue and exchange program with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army before the end of the year.
The commander, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the U.S. Army chief of staff, told reporters at a news conference in Beijing that the program was aimed at expanding cooperation and “managing differences constructively.”
“It really is about us focusing on a long-term relationship and the importance of us conducting exchanges, conducting institutional visits,” he said.
General Odierno made his remarks on Saturday morning at the United States Embassy, during the second day of a visit to China. The general met with Chinese counterparts in Beijing on Friday and was scheduled to travel to visit the Shenyang military command in northeast China on Saturday afternoon.
The general said the formal dialogue between U.S. and Chinese army officials would include discussions of humanitarian relief, disaster management and peacekeeping operations. The two armies could have exchanges at institutional levels like that of training and doctrine commands, General Odierno said.
A date for the first formal meeting in the program has not been set, but the general said some military officials who had come to China with him would stay there to work on details. General Odierno said he hoped a date would be finalized during an expected visit to China in April by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
