{"id":2584,"date":"2014-02-21T07:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2014-02-21T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:21:22","slug":"us-army-chief-of-staff-meets-top-chinese-generals-amid-tensions-efforts-to-build-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/21\/us-army-chief-of-staff-meets-top-chinese-generals-amid-tensions-efforts-to-build-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army chief of staff meets top Chinese generals amid tensions, efforts to build trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2609\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/220px-Odierno_Raymond_CSA_ASU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2609\" alt=\"U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/220px-Odierno_Raymond_CSA_ASU.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>BEIJING &#8211; The U.S. Army chief met with top Chinese generals in Beijing Friday amid regional tensions and efforts to build trust between the two nation&#8217;s militaries.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno was greeted with full military honours Friday morning at China&#8217;s Defence Ministry and had a full day of meetings scheduled in addition to an event at prestigious Peking University.<\/p>\n<p>His visit comes amid bitter disputes between China and two U.S. allies &#8211; Japan and the Philippines &#8211; over territorial claims in the East and South China seas.<\/p>\n<p>China also sparked U.S. concerns late last year when it unexpectedly announced an air defence zone encompassing a large swath of the East China Sea, including islands controlled by Japan but claimed by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has refused to recognize the zone or follow China&#8217;s demands that its aircraft file flight plans with Beijing&#8217;s Defence Ministry and heed Chinese instructions or face unspecified retaliatory measures.<\/p>\n<p>Despite those tensions, the militaries have pushed ahead with limited steps to reduce longstanding mistrust between them. They have held simulations aimed at co-operating in humanitarian relief operations, and China&#8217;s navy later this year is to take part in multinational naval exercises off Hawaii. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8211; The U.S. Army chief met with top Chinese generals in Beijing Friday amid regional tensions and efforts to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[420,352],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-china","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}