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Strengthening US Ties
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General Guo Boxiong, vice-chairman of China's Central Military Commission and the country's most senior military official, met with US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to exchange information on North Korea. The trip points to increasing efforts by both countries to mend bilateral military ties, which were severed when a Chinese fighter jet crashed into a US surveillance plane in Southern China in 2001. A Pentagon report earlier this year suggested that China was altering its position on its long-standing no-first-use policy toward nuclear weapons, allegations that Beijing denied in a strategic dialogue between the two countries in