End 'on-off' US-China defence ties: Gates

Reported by Straits Times on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 (on October 28, 2009)

WASHINGTON: United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates has called for deeper military ties with Beijing, telling a top Chinese general it was time to end a pattern of 'on-again, off-again' relations.

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