you talked about the chinese navy in general. last week we had the latest session of talks and was wondering if you had any readout and was wondering about any issues that came up. in addition, there is speculation there will be a military agreement at next week's summit. i was not aware there were any nady issues. >> -- any nady issues. >> all the services have an interest in it. and whereas i have not got an awful readout from the talks and the team has just gone back from china with details, i do not have them but i am encouraged by some of the things i hear. and the importance of the relationship is i think extraordinarily important to any relationship between countries. the incident in the chinese -- the ability to pick up the telephone and talk to someone i know and who knows me, even though we have differing opinions, having that ability to talk is important. the ability for ships to come together off the coast of somalia, whether it is the russian ships we have been operating with or the chinese ships that we have been

you talked a bit about the chinese navy in general. last week, we had our session of the defense council -- i wonder if you have a readout on e whether the issues you talked about, came up, particularly the navigation issues and admiral mullen just went to russia and there is a speculation, some kind of military agreement will be in next week's some and i'm not sure if there are any navy issues potentially involved in those discussions. >> right. i think when you talk about that with china or russia, all of the services have an interest in it. and whereas i have not gotten the full readout from the chairman's talks and the team has just gotten back from china, the details i do not have. but i'm encouraged by some of the things that i hear, and, the importance of the mill-to-mill relationship is, i think, extraordinarily important to any relationship between countries, because we -- as i mentioned, the incidents in the chinese eez, the ability to pick up a telephone, and talk to someone that i know, and who knows me, though we may have

with regard to china and the chinese navy, we did have the issue in the western pacific with one of our surveillance ships and the chinese fishing boats. it's interesting to note shortly after that took place i was on the phone with my counterpart for about an hour. i then about three weeks later was in china on my fourth visit to china and also my third time with my counterpart, admiral lee, and we were able to talk about these things. but contrast that with what we're doing in the gulf of aden with the cooperative nature of the counterpiracy operations there. so we're able to, you know, work our way through

could you update the situation with north korea vessel in the chinese see tracked by the u.s. navy and do you have any plan to ask permission to the vessel to make interdiction? >> i'm not going to be able to tell you any more than i told you on friday. i think you saw what secretary gates and admiral mullen said last week. i'm not going to go into any details of any specific ship, except that, of course, as always, we call upon north korea to refrain from provocative actions. what we are focused on especially here at the state department is we are focused on a vigorous enforcement of a puzzle bush and 1874. and of course, ship inspections are an important element of this resolution. and we also call upon other u.n. member states to enforce 1874. >> on taiwan, and i read an article on defense news talking about taiwan plans f-16 upgrade. so what is your position on this -- >> you have to ask the defense part about that. >> thank you. >> you wanted something on the record, is that it? go ahead, ask. >> he won't answer. [laughter] >> on israel i was wondering what your that puts tens