US military's Asia-Pacific commander visits Academy of Military Science

Описание: (15 Jan 2008)
1. Car with US flag on front driving up to Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Academy
2. Commander of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Timothy Keating, getting out of car, saluting and shaking hands with Liu Chengjun, head of PLA Academy of Military Science
3. Various of PLA Officers shaking hands with US officials
4. Keating walking into meeting
5. Mid of Liu Chengjun, head of PLA Academy of Military Science
6. Mid of Keating
7. Wide of meeting
8. Wide of another meeting, people clapping as Keating stands to make speech
9. Keating approaches podium
10. Cutaway of PLA officers listening
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Admiral Timothy Keating, Commander of the US Pacific Command:
"It is important for all of us to try to get a good grasp of the changes that are occurring in the People's Republic of China, so that we can better understand those changes, and perhaps contribute to even greater stability and peace through our region."
12. Wide of Keating at podium
13. PLA officers listening
14. Wide of Keating speaking
STORYLINE:
The US military's Asia-Pacific commander said on Tuesday that China needs to be more open about its military plans.
China has rapidly expanded its military in recent years, raising concerns in neighbouring countries and in the United States.
"It is important for all of us to try to get a good grasp of the changes that are occurring in the People's Republic of China, so that we can better understand those changes, and perhaps contribute to even greater stability and peace through our region," Admiral Timothy Keating told People's Liberation Army (PLA) officials during a visit to Beijing's Academy of Military Science on Tuesday.
Keating is on a four-day visit to China, his second since taking up his post early last year.
His Hawaii-based Pacific Command oversees busy trade routes that feed China's booming economy and the potentially unstable Taiwan Strait, a 160-mile-wide (100-mile-wide) body of water that divides Taiwan from mainland China.
Keating was scheduled to go to Shanghai on Tuesday and then southern Guangdong province to visit a military base.

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