Christopher P. Cavas
US and Chinese naval leaders hold video teleconference
WASHINGTON — The heads of the US and Chinese navies conferred for two hours Tuesday night in a scheduled video teleconference (VTC), part of a regular series of exchanges between the two naval leaders.
Adm. John Richardson, US chief of naval operations (CNO), and Chinese head of Navy Adm. Wu Shengli, “agreed that 2015 was a year of many highlights for the Navy-to-Navy relationship,” said a US Navy official, adding that each leader conveyed the willingness to build on that progress in 2016.
Other topics discussed, according to the official, included port visits and personnel exchanges. Both leaders were “satisfied and encouraged” by the increased use of Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) protocols, an agreement between the US, China and a number of other nations that sets rules and procedures for governing encounters at sea with the aim of defusing potential conflict.
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