, may have stopped them,” Locklear said. Instead, the two sides have been able to keep talking, planning exchanges and exercises, and carry them out.
On Wednesday, the deputy chief of the PLA Navy was at Hawaii’s Pacific Command headquarter talking about the coming two years’ worth of exercises, Locklear noted, including RIMPAC. The U.S. has asked China to participate in the next occurrence of the military’s huge multinational wargame, in 2014.