[20210104]IF11712_中美两军关系.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov January 4, 2021U.S.-China Military-to-Military RelationsIntroduction The United States and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC or China) established formal military-to-military (mil-mil) ties in 1979, a year after the two countries established diplomatic relations. Since then, mil-mil relations have waxed and waned, with one side or the other periodically limiting ties in response to perceived transgressions. In recent years, military ties have encompassed regularly-scheduled dialogues and exchanges, a handful of military exercises, and ongoing confidence-building measures. Congress has shaped U.S.-China mil-mil relations significantly and could seek to maintain, repeal, create, or modify legislation on this issue going forward. U.S. and PRC Approaches over Time Washington and Beijing generally engaged in high levels of military cooperation up until the PRCs June 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. In response to the crackdown, the United States suspended mil-mil ties and Congress prohibited U.S. arms sales to China. Although some ties resumed in 1993, they never regained their earlier scope and depth. Even as strategic competition between the two countr