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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Russian Fifth-Generation Fighter to Make First Public Flight at Moscow Air
Show. RIA Novosti, July 27, 2011.
http://en.rian.ru/news/20110727/165414542.html
----------------------------Separately
(1) Chinese Border Expansion Fails. Strategy Page, Aug 1, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htwin/articles/20110801.aspx
Quote:
"The 1994 treaty says nothing about blocking warships from your EEZ
Note:
(a) Paragraph 1 states, "The latest incident occurred when, on July 27th,
China criticized the United States for flying one of its U-2 recon aircraft
too close to the Chinese coast. In this June incident, a Chinese Su-27 went
after the U-2, and was in turn intercepted by two Taiwanese F-16s."
There is a typo: The "June" in "In this June incident" should be "July."
(b) Territorial water is "22 kilometers" or 12 nautical miles from baseline
of the land.
(c) In the quotation above, the "treaty" refers to United Nations Convention
on Law of the Sea, which signed in 1982 and became effective in 1994.
(d) Prata Islands 東沙群島
(2) 领土争端：中国“九条断续线”深入邻国家门口. VOA Chinese, July 31, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110731-South-China-Sea-126479103.html
("中国教科书说，国土最北是黑龙江漠河，最南端则是曾母暗沙(James Shoal)。这个
曾母暗沙就属于中国所说的南沙群岛和菲律宾所说的斯普拉特利(Spratly)群岛。这岛
礁距离中国大陆约两千公里，距离同时提出拥有主权的文莱、马来西亚只有80公里")
MY comment: History textbooks of Republic of China in Taiwan claimed (when I
was there) the same about 曾母暗沙.
(3) Nicole Young, When Opportunity Knocks, Students Take a 'Gap Year.' The
Tennessean, Aug 1, 2011
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110801/NEWS04
/308010026/When-opportunity-knocks-students-take-a-gap-year-
(High school graduate who took four years of Chinese in high school,
McKenzie "Andrews, who deferred her admission to Stanford University, will
leave home in about two weeks to spend a year in Taiwan studying Chinese at
a college there. After an application process that took months, she learned
in the spring that she was one of 650 students selected from a pool of more
than 2,000 to receive a full scholarship for the program through the
National Security Language Initiative")
Note:
(a) The Tennessean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tennessean
(known until 1970 as The Nashville Tennessean; the principal daily newspaper
in Nashville, Tennessee; owned by the Gannett Corporation; Founded 1907)
(b) National Security Language Initiative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Language_Initiat
(c) For Hope Scholarship of Tennessee, See HOPE Scholarship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_Scholarship
(acronym of Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally; created in 1993 in
state of Georgia; section 8 Similar scholarship lotteries in other states:
Tennessee Hope Scholarship
* Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Student_Assistance_Corpo
(4) Yani Tseng Wins Women's British Open for 5th Major. Associated Press,
July 31, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/yani-tseng-wins-
womens-british-open-5th-major-201014910.html
("The 22-year-old Taiwanese becom[s] the youngest player — male or female
— to capture a fifth major title. Sorenstam was 32 when she won the 2003
LPGA Championship for her fifth major. Tiger Woods was 24 when he won his
fifth at the 2000 PGA Championship
Note:
(a) Yani TSENG 曾 雅妮
(b) Annika Sorenstam (1970- ) earned 22 million in her career, retired in
2008 and holds dual citizenship of Sweden and US. Wikipedia
(5)
(a) Cheng Guangjin, 'Strategic Outlook Needed' for Gas Talks. China Daily,
July 28, 2011.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy
/2011-07/28/content_12997400.htm
Quote:
"Gazprom has been insisting that China's prices should be on a par with
those in Europe. According to Feng, the gap between China's natural gas
price and the international level will take time to be narrowed.
"Let's say, China's natural gas price has to stay at this level for now, but
it is possible to reach another level in a few years' time," said Feng.
"If we both accept such a 'multi-step process', we may achieve more
breakthroughs in the negotiations."
"Russia also has concerns over how much natural gas China actually needs
from it
"Meanwhile, China has been deploying four strategic channels to secure its
sources of oil and natural gas * * * Construction of the China-Myanmar oil
and gas pipeline is due to finish in 2013, which will be the fourth way for
oil and natural gas to enter China, after ocean shipping, the Sino-Kazakh
pipelines and the Sino-Russian crude oil pipeline.
Note: Interfax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfax
(a Russian non-governmental news agency based in Moscow. The agency was
established in 1989 by officials from the international service, Moscow
Radio)
(b) Howard Amos, Gazprom Asks China to Prepay. Moscow Times, July 11, 2011.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business
/article/gazprom-asks-china-to-prepay/440279.html
Note: The Moscow Times is an English-language daily newspaper published in
Moscow, Russia since 1992; Editor-in-Chief is Andrew McChesney; The
newspaper regularly publishes articles by prominent Russian journalists,
many of whom take critical positions towards the current Russian government
in general; Owner Independent Media Sanoma Magazines (based in Helsinki,
Finland). Wikipedia
(c) Vladimir Soldatkin, Russia's Transneft Q1 Revenue Soars on Sales to
China. Reuters, July 26, 2011.
http://af.reuters.com/article
/commoditiesNews/idAFLDE76P19520110726
Note: The oil pricing dispute remains unresolved, though Beijing has played
down any rifts. |
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