Senior U.S. defense officials meeting this week with their Chinese counterparts in Beijing hope to "gain improved procedures" for avoiding dangerous incidents at sea, according to U.S. Pacific Command. Maj. Gen. Randolph Alles, PACOM's director of strategic planning and policy (J-5), and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia Michael Schiffer are meeting with Rear Adm. Guan Youfei, deputy director of the Chinese defense ministry's foreign affairs office, PACOM spokesman Capt. Jeffrey Breslau told Inside the Pentagon. The "special"...
