Gates said the United States to "strengthen" its military presence in Asia

In the United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday assured the Secretary that it will maintain and enhance its strong presence in the region's allies in the Asia Pacific region, while reaffirming the resolution of conflicts without the use of the principle of force.

In a speech to the continuous development of the best proof of its influence in Asia, the U.S. strategy, Gates described the relationship between it, such as Japan and South Korea's allies in the past decades, and countries such as Viet Nam and India's history .

"In short, all these developments indicate that the U.S. commitment to maintain a strong military presence in Asia - an underwriting support and comfort to its allies, and stable deterrence and, where necessary, defeat potential adversaries," Gates said.

Defense Agency chief said the United States has taken a defensive stance across a number of steps in the Asia-Pacific ", which is more geographical distribution, flexible operation, and politically sustainable."

Proposed military posture in Northeast Asia to maintain presence, while strengthening the U.S. in Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean, the existence of the United States, he said.

Gates also said the U.S. military will have to increase their port calls, naval, and multilateral training in several countries throughout the region's efforts in the coming years.

Existence of the United States and the related impact and influence not only in the conventional measurement of indicators, or "boots on the ground," he said, deal with the U.S. and its allies representatives and representatives of the crying, the wolf in China's development problems Dialogue.

Gates said the U.S. Navy and Air Force is to develop a sea and air combat operations called the new concept of recognition, despite the turmoil in the Cold War have given way to new partnerships and cooperation in the Asian countries.

Of: the concept of air and sea operations, the purpose is to ensure that the U.S. military will "continue to deploy, move and strike, allies and vital interests over long distances on the defensive."

However, Gates also said the United States and China are working together to create a positive, cooperative and comprehensive relations, and military to military relations have been steadily improving in recent months.

As defense minister, he has as a priority, the establishment of military to military relations, there is now an important mechanism for dialogue, he said.

Gates was speaking of the Tenth Asia Security Summit in London organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue. It brings together 27 countries and regions from the Secretary of Defense, this year, senior defense officials.

The summit in the Asia Pacific region has become an important forum for security dialogue. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, as the speaker said he believed the way forward must be based on cooperation and confrontation, not dialogue, and called on the leaders of the country and play their roles.

Like many leaders in the dialogue, Najib said that the world economy is increasingly integrated and interdependent, the production process more dispersed across national boundaries.

"It no longer has any sense of global power to wage war on Iraq: they just have too many failures," he said.

Malaysian Prime Minister also said the world should see China as an optimistic, rather than worry about rising.

"China may expand - it has nearly 20 years consecutive year of spectacular economic growth of 9.5 percent - but it does not dominate the way, in the past have done the greatest economic power in the world," he said. "In the late 40's the United States is not only the largest of any country's gross domestic product (GDP), which also accounted for more than half the world's wealth."

As for China, even if it is, it is predicted that in about 30 years to become the world's largest in the world economy, it is likely to account for less than a quarter of global gross domestic product, he said.

He also denied that China's growth as a cause for undue alarm in the military capacity, citing his experience with China.

"We know that in Malaysia, China's first commitment is to peace," he said.

Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith also said that the region must continue to develop the habit of dialogue, which helps countries in the region to withstand severe tensions and resolution, if and when they appear.

Practical military and defense cooperation, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, peacekeeping operations, training, exercises and training, maritime security, will be based on mutual respect, trust and cooperation between the two militaries habits, he said.

Australia has been committed to developing ties with China through dialogue and practical activities, including visits by senior officials and naval vessels strong and active military and defense relations, he said.

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