| Chen Bingde (middle), Chief of the General Staff of People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China, talks to Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen (right) during a ceremony at Fort Myer in Washington on May 17. Chen arrived in Washington late Sunday for a week-long official visit to the United States. Chen's visit, the first in seven years by a PLA chief of the general staff, is part of the efforts to implement the consensus reached by Chinese President Hu Jintao and his U.S. counterpart, President Barack Obama (XINHUA) |
