| Here ya go, Joe Mendiola, you can be our local correspondent on this one. |
He said officers from other Asian militaries also were invited to attend the exercise on the sea near Guam. He said his Chinese hosts have not said whether they would attend.
Fallon, a commander of U.S. Pacific forces, said he told Chinese commanders that building a ``track record of confidence,'' would help persuade the U.S. Congress to lift restrictions on U.S.-Chinese military interaction.
He said Chinese acceptance of invitations to mix with U.S. and other militaries in the region and exchanges of lower-level officers would help build such confidence. ``I believe we need to start moving down this road, and the sooner we do it, the better off we will be,'' Fallon told reporters in this northeastern Chinese city, the last stop on his trip.
| And it provides the Chinese with a better understanding of just how we can hammer them. If we ever had to. Just saying. |