Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web U. S. -China Military Contacts : Issues for Congress Updated May 10, 2005

By Kan, Shirley A.

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Title:	Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web U. S. -China Military Contacts : Issues for Congress Updated May 10, 2005
Author:	Kan, Shirley A.
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Language:	English
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Excerpt
Summary: This CRS Report discusses policy issues regarding military-to-military contacts with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and provides a record of contacts since 1993. The United States suspended military contacts with China and imposed sanctions on arms sales in response to the Tiananmen Crackdown in 1989. In 1993, the Clinton Administration began to re-engage the PRC leadership up to the highest level and including China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Renewed military exchanges with the PLA have not regained the closeness reached in the 1980s, when the United States and China cooperated strategically against the Soviet Union, including U.S. arms sales to China. Improvements and deteriorations in overall bilateral relations have affected military contacts, which were close in 1997- 1998 and 2000, but marred by the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, mistaken NATO bombing of a PRC embassy in 1999, and the EP-3 aircraft collision incident in 2001.

Table of Contents
Contents Overview of U.S. Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Cooperation in the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspensions after Tiananmen Crackdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Re-engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Re-evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Policy Issues for Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Congressional Oversight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Arms Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Joint Defense Conversion Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Past Reporting Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Programs of Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Prohibitions in the FY2000 NDAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Required Reports and Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Leverage to Pursue U.S. Security Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 U.S. Security Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Communication, Conflict-Avoidance, and Crisis-Management . . . . . 16 Information-Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Tension-Reduction Over Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Weapons Nonproliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Counter-Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Accounting for POW/MIAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Military-to-Military Contacts Since 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23