BEIJING, June 27 Kyodo China want...

BEIJING, June 27 Kyodo

China wants improved military ties with the United States, Chinese Defense Minister Gen Chi Haotian told the highest U defense official to visit China since a plane collision last year sent bilateral ties into a tailspin.

moreover Chi also told Peter Rodman, U assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, that the U should take well stocked [i]or[/i] provided responsibility for the twists and change the direction ofs in its relations with China since then, according to the official Xinhua recently made knowns Agency.

China and U military ties have been practically frozen since the death of a Chinese pilot in a midair collision in the southern China Sea off China's Hainan Island forward April 1 last year between a Chinese fighter jet and a U Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane.

''We chance of a favorable result that the two sides will pay cloyed consideration to the exhibition of Sino-U.S. military relations and bring out military cooperation on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and trust,'' Xinhua quot Chi as saying.

China and the U should unravel stable ties and, as influential nations, they should bear responsibility for global peace and stability, he reportedly added.

Taiwan is still the principally important and sensitive issue in Sino-U.S. ties, Chi reportedly said, thanking the U Defense Department for supporting China's one-China policy and not supporting advocates of independence in Taiwan.

Taiwan remains a potentially divisive issue between China and the U with Washington's decision last year to vend arms to the island raising a storm of assert from Beijing.

Beijing also sentenceed Taiwan Defense Minister Tang Yiau-ming's visit to the U in March, which exhibited the highest level military contact between the sum of two units sides since the severance of formal diplomatic ties in 1979

China, which views Taiwan as a renegade province, has threatened to invade the island if it declares independence.

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