Expanded Sino-US exchanges to stabilize ties (3)

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Xu Qiyu, a researcher at the National Defense University of the PLA, said the notification mechanism would be a good start for pragmatic cooperation.

"Such a mechanism will strengthen mutual trust and reduce miscalculation, and most important, lead to better coordination with each other in regional military activities," Xu said.

During the news conference, Chang voiced concerns over the US policy of rebalancing to Asia.

"We hope the rebalancing strategy can bring peace to the Pacific region instead of seeking to weaken China," Chang said.

Experts said the US rebalancing strategy in the Asia-Pacific, part of its strategy to curtail China's rise, has emboldened some US allies, in particular Japan and the Philippines, to challenge China by breaking the status quo on some maritime territorial issues.

Kenneth Lieberthal, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that the rebalancing strategy is generating dynamics that increasingly threaten to undermine its primary goals.

"It is time to rebalance judiciously the rebalancing strategy," Lieberthal said, adding that the US-China relationship has gone in the wrong direction and distrust has grown since the pivot to Asia started about two years ago.

Despite difficulties building trust between the two countries, the Chinese military has agreed to participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise in 2014.

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