The United States will increase the military forces in the Pacific

The United States will increase the military forces Meifang Zhang said at Shangri-La Dialogue conference in the Pacific, 2020, U.S. warships in the allocation of the Atlantic and the Pacific region will be neither good adjustment to the forty-six open

11th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on the evening of 3 closing in the three-day meeting, participants discussed the security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. During the meeting, the United States to "return to Asia" military strategic plan to become the focus of the meeting, Sino-US relations in this context, the interaction is also of concern.

Meifang Chang: The U.S. will seek to ensure that the military power the world's first

U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta Shangri-La Dialogue as an important stop of their Asian trip. 2, Panetta at the meeting described the deployment of U.S. military strategy to return to Asia.

Shangri-La Dialogue, also known as the Asian Security Summit - organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank headquartered in London. Attending the Asia-Pacific region and countries outside the region, Secretary of Defense and defense senior officials delivered a speech at the meeting on security issues, to answer questions, discussions, and also between meetings of the bilateral or multilateral diplomatic activities.

Panetta said the U.S. government fiscal deficit pressure to cut $ 487 billion military budget in 10 years. But the United States will seek to ensure that military forces in the world's first army towards the development of more flexible, state-of-the-art direction. The U.S. Navy will eliminate a number of warships in the next five years, the deployment of more advanced ships.

Panetta said that the United States has always been a Pacific nation will maintain its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen relations with regional allies and partners, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand. By 2020, the U.S. Navy warships in the Atlantic and the Pacific region to deploy allocation will be neither good adjustment for the forty-six open when the U.S. military deployment in the Pacific will include the number of six aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, coastal combat ships and submarines also account for more than half of the U.S. Navy's total number.

He also said that the number and scale of U.S. military exercises in the Pacific region will increase.

Panetta also elaborated on the position of the United States on US-China relations, said the United States recognize the importance of the US-China relations. He said the importance of bilateral relations not only in the military aspects, but also in diplomatic and economic fields. Military relations have ups and downs are natural, but also in many areas face common challenges such as humanitarian relief, combating piracy, narcotics, and the two countries have the potential to develop a closer relationship in these areas.

China Representative: the United States look carefully handle the bilateral relations

The Chinese delegation to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, military science, vice president Ren Haiquan will be Panetta's speech reflected the United States attaches importance to Sino-US relations and hopes to strengthen cooperation with China in various aspects of defense, political, diplomatic, economic and other cooperation, but also reflects the strategic needs of the United States. If the U.S. side will earnestly to see such a strategy needs careful handling bilateral relations, Sino-US relations, the Asia-Pacific and the world situation will be further development of the right direction.

Renhai Quan said, the Shangri-La Dialogue will highlight the theme of the Asia-Pacific security in the new situation, the atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation.

Emerging security challenges, especially networks and maritime security challenges in the area, Shangri-La Dialogue will be another major issue also highlights the exchanges and cooperation in the mainstream.

Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said, emerging non-traditional challenges, including humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, maritime security and counter-terrorism. Malaysian Defense Minister Ahmed Hamidi talked about the challenges of cyberspace, and some other countries, the defense minister is talking about the threat posed by criminal groups, piracy and terrorist organizations and security challenges.

Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said, around the world are still visible in the regional and the state of hostility between nations, but the most common and most worrisome challenge is not actually from the State, but also very different security threats in the traditional sense of the . French Defense Minister Jean - Yves Rod Lyon, any safe and beneficial in the Asia-Pacific region, will also benefit the stability of the world.