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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Edward Wong, China's Navy Reaches Far, Unsettling the Region. New York
Times, June 15, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/world/asia
/15china.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=edward%20Wong&st=cse
Quote:
"Foreign officials and analysts say the skirmishes this year have great
potential to devolve into military conflict. 'The situation there seems to
be escalating in dangerous ways,' Mr. [Lyle] Goldstein[, a professor at the
China Maritime Studies Institute at the United States Naval War College]
said.
"Though China has not explicitly delineated its territorial claims, critics
in the region say it is relying on a map, drawn up by the old Kuomintang
government and supported by the current Communist government, that shows
virtually the entire South China Sea under Chinese dominion. Mr. Hong said
China’s position on the sea 'has remained unchanged for centuries,' and has
called on Vietnam and the Philippines to stop oil exploration there.
"Analysts say the tensions will be a test for the United States, since it is
allied with the Philippines and has grown closer to Vietnam.
Note:
(a) skiff (n): "any of various small boats; especially : a flat-bottomed
rowboat"
www.m-w.com
(b) Qingdao Naval Museum 青岛海军博物馆
(c) Quotation 2 alludes to a 1947 map of Republic of China (ROC), which
demarcated South China Sea with eleven broken lines (wrapping around even
TAiwan), which People's Republic of China replaced with NINE (9) broken
lines 九段线. See (2).
(d) Quotation 3 hints US might put its prestige on the line. US (the Obama
administration, that is) official position so far only indicates its "
national interest" in sealanes, without mentioning the goods underneath.
(2) Q&A: South China Sea Dispute. BBC English, June 13, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13748349
Quote:
"In 1947 China issued a map [《南中国海图》1947年正月广东省政府秘书处编制]
detailing its claims. It shows the two island groups as falling entirely
within its territory. Those claims are mirrored by Taiwan, because the
island considers itself the Republic of China and has the same territorial
claims.")
"Vietnam hotly disputes China's historical account, saying China never
claimed sovereignty over the islands until the 1940s. Vietnam says both
island chains are entirely within its territory. It says it has actively
ruled over both the Paracels and the Spratlys since the 17th Century - and
has the documents to prove it.
My comment: This is some truth to Vietnam's claim. Taiwan's claim over
Taiping Island or
Itu Aba Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itu_Aba_Island
(called Taiping Island by Taiwan and other names by Vietnam and the
Phillipines; the largest of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea and
the only island with a fresh water supply; section 2 History)
Please take notice that Taian's claim over Taiping Island has nothing to do
with China's (or Republic of China's, whether it is historical or otherwise)
, through its (Taiwan's) declaration and physical occupation of the then
unpopulated atoll in 1946. Under international law, occupation does not
confer ownership but declaration does.
(3) Michael Wines, Dispute Between Vietnam and China Escalates Over
Competing Claims in South China Sea. New York Times, June 11, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/world/asia
/11vietnam.html?scp=1&sq=michael%20wines%20sea&st=cse
("The issue heated up again last year because of a United Nations treaty
that required all nations to file formal claims to continental shelf seabeds
by the end of 2009. The documents that Vietnam and China filed asserted
their competing territorial claims in the South China Sea more aggressively
than they had before")
My comment: There is no need to read the rest.
(4) 北京谈判南中国海争端立场能挺多久？ VOA Chinese, June 15, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110615-SCS-dispute-123899119.html
(bilateral or multilateral?)
(5) 菲律宾移除南中国海有争议水域标示物. VOA Chinese, June 15, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110615-south-china-sea-updt-123910019.html
Note: Phl removes foreign markers in Spratlys. The Philippine Star, June 16,
2011 (available now).
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=696616&publicati
The photo caption of the Filipino newspaper mentions Woody Island, South
China Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Island,_South_China_Sea
(永興島; one of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea; occupied by the
People's Republic of China and also claimed by the Republic of China and
Vietnam; It has no indigenous inhabitants, although there are People's
Liberation Army soldiers are stationed on the island).
Consult the 1947 map in (2) above.
(6) 美国是否会介入南中国海争端？ VOA Chinese, June 14, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110614-China
-Warns-Outside-Nations-to-Stay-out-of-Sea-Dispute-123848599.html
(马萨：美国不会坐视不管; 波拉克：美国不会直接插手)
Note: The commentators are Michael Mazza of American Enterprise Institute
and Jonathan D. Pollack of Brookings Institution. |
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