| Ma Xiaotian (left), deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, as they attend the three-day Asia Security Summit, organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, in Singapore on May 30. Ma said multilateral dialogue and security cooperation mechanisms at different levels and in different fields should be encouraged in the Asia-Pacific region to cope with transnational threats and challenges such as terrorism, international crime, natural disasters and piracy (XINHUA) |
