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The Norfolk-based hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) ties up in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, during a five-month humanitarian assistance mission in Central and South America. The author argues that the Comfort and her Guam-based sister ship, the USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), should be the mainstays of a joint U.S.-Chinese humanitarian assistance and disaster response effort as a first step toward improving military-to-military cooperation between the two countries.
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Military-to-military cooperation between the United States and China has been stalled for years. Here’s a suggestion to help bolster it.
By Lieutenant Commander Jason P. Grower, U.S. Navy
April 2013
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For more than 20 years, the United States has been seeking ways to expand bilateral cooperation with China to help improve U.S.-Chinese relations. One of the most frustrating efforts has been in the United States’ attempts to build ties between the two countries’ military establishments. Since 1994, when then-Secretary of Defense William J. Perry proposed regular military-to-military exchanges, the Chinese have alternatively embraced such cooperation and later suspended it abruptly, usually to show their anger over U.S. actions such as continued American arms sales to Taiwan.

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