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Several scholars who participated in the 8th International Maritime Safety Conference on Thursday raised their opinions on regional navigation freedom.Among them, Zhou Bo, a researcher at the Strategic and Security Research Center of Tsinghua University, emphasized that China's defense expenditure has maintained a low level of 2 % of the GDP in the past few years, showing that China believes that there is still a possibility of peace in Taiwan.
The situation in the main waters of Asia -Pacific is heating up. This trend is even more worrying due to the lack of communication and mutual trust between China and the United States.
Several scholars who participated in the 8th International Maritime Safety Conference on Thursday (May 4) raised their opinions on the freedom of navigation.Among them, Zhou Bo, a researcher at the Strategic and Security Research Center of Tsinghua University, emphasized that China's defense expenditure has maintained a low level of 2 % of the GDP in the past few years, showing that China believes that there is still a possibility of peace in Taiwan.
In response to Western media that Taiwan may become the next Ukraine's exposition, he emphasized that China has stated that unless there is a specific situation, it will not solve the Taiwan Strait issue with non -peaceful means.
Zhou Bo believes that the Chinese government can see the Chinese government's grasp of the environment, itself, and even Taiwan.China's national defense budget has remained no more than 2%of the GDP in the past few decades. Even in the two years of the Russia -Ukraine War, the national defense budget still does not exceed 2%.He also said that compared to the reaction of China ’s former dean of the House of Representatives in the United States in August last year in August and Taiwan’ s Tsai Ing -wen ’s visit to the United States in April last year, although the PLA has held a three -day military exercise twice, the second militaryThe performance is relatively restrained, and there is no use of real bombs, showing that China's reaction is professional and restrained.
However, David Finkelstein, vice president of the US Navy Analysis Center, believes that the Chinese government has chosen in force and other methods to express dissatisfaction with political development in the past few years, and it will be worrying whether it is professional or restrained.As Taiwan intercepted the military aircraft that across the forbidden area, it became the norm, and the possibility of wiping guns on fire increased, especially no direct dialogue between the two sides of the strait.
The host of the discussion and Professor Xu Tongmei, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, analyzed that the current fundamental problem is that the governments of China and the United States have not communicated.He believes that for the sake of world peace, the world needs these two superpowers to dialogue at all levels, and it also requires the two countries to start rebuilding trust through joint efforts when the interests are consistent.
Xu Tongmei: China and the United States should directly talk
Some participants asked Singapore if they could mediate Sino -US relations. Xu Tongmei emphasized that Singapore has no ambitions in this area. He believes that China and the United States will also oppose it.He said that the two countries should talk directly. What neutral countries such as Singapore and Indonesia can do can provide a platform like the International Maritime Security Conference so that China and the United States can participate.
Zhou Bo also accused the Indian government of pressure on Sri Lanka at the discussion, preventing China's "Yuanwang 5" measurement ships at the port of Sri Lanka.He does not agree that the Indian Ocean is the "net security provider" that has strengthened each other's security in the Indian Ocean to strengthen each other's security provider.Pirates in the Indian Ocean.
He said: "If someone questions the legitimacy of the Chinese Navy in the Indian Ocean, I hope you ask you to give an example of the Chinese Ocean that violates any rules in the Indian Ocean.Helping Chinese merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, such as rescue Chinese ships, China has also been escorting Indian ships. "
The former Indian Navy Chief of Staff Karambir Singh, who spoke at the same scene, said he was unwilling to argue about it, but said that India's behavior depends on the way China interacts with other countries and China through maritime activities through maritime activities through maritime activities.Signals issued to other countries.He pointed out that India has witnessed the situation of the South China Sea and does not want the same thing to repeat the same thing in the Indian Ocean.
Xu Tongmei believes that the relationship between China and India is affected by territorial disputes between the Himalayas and other bilateral issues. There is a mutual deficit between the two governments, so it will suspect that the other party's behavior is suspected.Because of this, when China built a port in Sri Lanka, India would doubt that China built ports in such a place near India and whether to use ports to fight India.
