美國務助卿羅素 05-21-2015 表示：
.【正常思想的人不會試圖阻止美國海軍運作、那不是好賭注】又說：即使中國進行挑釁，美國軍機仍會飛越 南海國際海域。 -
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美軍機偵察被共軍警告 美助卿回嗆：正常人不會想阻止美海軍
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2015-05-23
羅素：美在國際水域和領空活動 完全恰當
〔駐美特派員曹郁芬／華府二十一日報導〕美國國務院亞太助卿羅素今天表示，歐巴馬政府讓美國有線電視新聞網 （ＣＮＮ） 登上美國「海神式」反潛巡邏機進行偵察南海報導，目的是「 透明化 」，美國要分享所做與所見的。他堅持，美國在「國際水域和國際領空」進行這些活動完全恰當，美國會繼續在全球完全地執行這些權利。
根據美國海軍21日公布的P-8A「海神式」反潛巡邏機取得影像，清楚可見中國多艘挖沙船在越南、菲律賓皆主張主權的南沙群島美濟礁出沒。（路透）
羅素上週末才隨美國國務卿凱瑞訪問北京。他今天在外籍記者中心就亞洲情勢向媒體簡報，美中在南海的較勁成為焦點。對於中國海軍曾對美國偵察機發出八次警告，羅素回嗆，「沒有一個心智正常的人會想要阻止美國海軍」，那是一個錯誤的賭注。
「全世界的沙土堆在一起也不能製造主權」
他表示，全世界的沙土堆在一起也不能製造主權，問題不在沙土，而在行為。歐巴馬政府讓ＣＮＮ隨偵察機飛過中國控制的永暑礁等礁石，因為沒有人希望一覺醒來看見有人片面改變現狀，見到中國在南海擴張並部署軍事設施。大家清楚了解事實後，才有機會清楚地對話。
他說，凱瑞和中國國家主席習近平等人會面時，表達了美國對中國在南海造島的嚴重關切，因為這不僅造成情勢的不穩定，中國片面的行動甚至讓鄰邦感受到威脅。美國在南海主權爭議上不採取立場，但美國在航行和飛行自由、自由貿易上有立場，而且會堅定維護。凱瑞告訴中方，南海問題確實衝擊到美中關係。
羅素表示，許多國家在南海都有利益，但南海是一個共同利益，沒有一個國家的利益可以違反國際法，所有主權爭議應依據國際法，透過外交和平解決，中國沒有理由不能在今年十二月和東協國家達成南海行為準則的共識。不過他強調，美中關係基礎堅實，美中並沒有走到一個攤牌的轉捩點。
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米 南シナ海を偵察 映像公開し中国けん制
5月22日 10時19分
アメリカ国防総省は、中国が海洋進出を強める南シナ海で哨戒機による偵察を行った際に中国軍から警告を受けた様子などを公開し、領有権を主張する中国をけん制するねらいがあるものとみられます。
国防総省は２１日、沖縄県の嘉手納基地に配備されているアメリカ海軍の最新鋭のＰ８哨戒機が南シナ海で偵察活動を行う映像を公開しました。
映像は、各国が領有権を争う南沙（スプラトリー）諸島で、中国が浅瀬を埋め立てた人工島に滑走路を建設しているとみられる様子を映しています。
その中には、哨戒機が中国海軍から無線で警告を受けたやり取りを記録した書類もあり、中国側が「われわれの軍事区域に接近している。速やかに退去しなさい」と警告し、アメリカ側が「われわれは公海の上空で、国際法に基づいて活動している」と応酬したことが示されています。
国務省のラッセル国務次官補は２１日、記者会見で、「南シナ海での偵察活動は、通常の任務だ。すべての国が航行の自由を確保する権利を持っており、アメリカ軍の任務を止めることはできない」と述べました。
さらに、国防総省のウォレン報道部長も２１日、記者団に対し、人工島から１２海里、およそ２２キロ以内の中国が領海と主張する地域に、軍の航空機や艦船を派遣する可能性について、「 それは次の段階だろう。ただ、いつ実施するかなどは、何も決まっていない」と述べて可能性を排除しない姿勢を示すなど、アメリカには中国をけん制するねらいがあるものとみられます。
映像は、各国が領有権を争う南沙（スプラトリー）諸島で、中国が浅瀬を埋め立てた人工島に滑走路を建設しているとみられる様子を映しています。
その中には、哨戒機が中国海軍から無線で警告を受けたやり取りを記録した書類もあり、中国側が「われわれの軍事区域に接近している。速やかに退去しなさい」と警告し、アメリカ側が「われわれは公海の上空で、国際法に基づいて活動している」と応酬したことが示されています。
国務省のラッセル国務次官補は２１日、記者会見で、「南シナ海での偵察活動は、通常の任務だ。すべての国が航行の自由を確保する権利を持っており、アメリカ軍の任務を止めることはできない」と述べました。
さらに、国防総省のウォレン報道部長も２１日、記者団に対し、人工島から１２海里、およそ２２キロ以内の中国が領海と主張する地域に、軍の航空機や艦船を派遣する可能性について、「 それは次の段階だろう。ただ、いつ実施するかなどは、何も決まっていない」と述べて可能性を排除しない姿勢を示すなど、アメリカには中国をけん制するねらいがあるものとみられます。
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U.S. publicly challenges China's moves in disputed islands
The U.S. military has begun to carefully but publicly challenge Chinese island-building on disputed reefs and shoals in the South China Sea, creating fresh tension in a potential global tinderbox as both countries shift forces into the area.
In the latest incident, a Chinese military dispatcher demanded repeatedly that a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft leave as it flew near Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands, where China has dredged hundreds of yards of coral and sand and built an airstrip on what it claims is sovereign territory.
"Foreign military aircraft, this is Chinese navy. You are approaching our military alert zone. Leave immediately," the Chinese dispatcher said in a radio transmission, the Navy recounted Thursday.
When the U.S. crew responded that it was flying in international airspace, the Chinese dispatcher answered, "This is the Chinese navy.... You go!" The U.S. plane, which was operating from an air base in the Philippines, received eight warnings from the Chinese during the mission.
Verbal sparring is common between the two militaries, but the Pentagon decision to release two videos and audio recordings from the dust-up a day earlier — less than a week after it disclosed that a U.S. warship also had sailed through the Spratlys — shows a new willingness to publicly confront Beijing for expanding construction projects in waters believed to be rich in oil and gas, and close to vital shipping lanes.
U.S. officials said they are determined to preserve freedom of international navigation and airspace, but are not seeking to provoke a confrontation with China.
The jockeying comes as Defense Secretary Ashton Carter heads to Asia next week on a trip intended to shore up security alliances in a region increasingly nervous about China's policies. He will visit Singapore, Vietnam and India.
Regional tension has grown since President Obama announced a so-called U.S. strategic pivot to Asia four years ago, in part to keep an eye on a fast-rising China. The administration has shifted ships and troops to the Western Pacific and expanded military ties with several countries worried about China's growing clout, including Japan, the Philippines, Australia and, to a lesser extent, Vietnam.
The renewed American focus on the region appears to have led to unintended consequences, however. Beijing has become more aggressive in asserting its maritime and territorial claims in the South China and East China seas.
Some senior Chinese officials fear that the U.S. military "has effectively 'boxed in' China," Jeff Smith, director of Asia security programs at the American Foreign Policy Council, a Philadelphia think tank, wrote in this month's Foreign Affairs magazine.
The Chinese are "eager to punish neighbors such as Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines — and even India — who they believe capitalized on a period of relative Chinese weakness to assume control of disputed islands in the South and East China Seas," he said.
For now, U.S. officials believe they can pressure China to scale back its island-building by galvanizing other Asian governments against it. In recent months, the U.S. has encouraged Japan to begin naval patrols in the South China Sea, where it doesn't normally sail, and provided ships and other equipment to the Philippine and Vietnamese coast guards.
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"As China seeks to make sovereign land out of sandcastles and redraw maritime boundaries, it is eroding regional trust, undermining investor confidence and challenging the energy security upon which all of us depend," Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a speech Wednesday in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The U.S. surveillance flight came less than a week after the Fort Worth, a Navy littoral combat ship designed for near-shore operations, passed close to the Spratly Islands, where the Chinese are dredging sand and building up five reefs.
Pentagon officials said the patrol was meant to show that Washington does not accept China's claims that seas surrounding the disputed reefs constitute Chinese territorial waters. Chinese navy ships tailed the U.S. vessel during the patrol.
"What you're seeing by the U.S. is a calculated, transparent effort to reveal the situation in all of its details and potential dangers," said Mira Rapp Hooper, an expert in maritime disputes at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. But when military forces operate in such proximity, she warned, "there is always the danger of inadvertent or accidental escalation."
In 2013, China announced a so-called air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, requiring aircraft in the area to identify themselves and implying that those in violation could be shot down. The U.S. soon sent two B-52 bombers through the zone without giving notice, a move that U.S. officials believe led Beijing to end its demands.
Pentagon officials worry that Beijing may next try to declare an air defense identification zone in the South China Sea.
The Poseidon surveillance plane flew from Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Once the largest U.S. air base in the Pacific, it was turned over to the Philippine government in 1991 after the eruption of the nearby Pinatubo volcano. The U.S. has been flying surveillance missions in the South China Sea from the Philippines since January.
Videos released by the Navy on Thursday show the P-8A flying near Fiery Cross Reef and several of the other coral outcroppings where U.S. officials say the Chinese have created 2,000 acres of land since last year.
An unidentified Navy lieutenant can be seen pointing out features on Fiery Cross Reef, including a partially finished airfield, a dredger vacuuming up sand and several plants for producing concrete.
"Currently what we're looking at is some construction on a landing strip," he says, pointing at one of the plane's high-resolution video screens. "You see here the landing strip and on the backside the taxiway that they're building. They've built hundreds of meters in the past couple months."
As the plane's cameras scan the sandy shoal, surrounded by aqua waters, he says, "Once you pan to the east, there's a dredger active that will take land from the ocean and pile it up to build more land, which gives them more space."
At one point, the video shows a radioman writing down a message from the Chinese dispatcher and a reply from the P-8: "I am a U.S. military aircraft conducting lawful activities," it reads.
In Beijing on Thursday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman reiterated China's claims of sovereignty in the Spratly archipelago.
Hong Lei said that he had no information about the warnings to the U.S. surveillance plane, but that China was "entitled to the surveillance over related airspace and sea areas so as to maintain national security and avoid any maritime accidents."
"We hope relevant countries respect China's sovereignty over the South China Sea, abandon actions that may intensify controversies and play a constructive role for regional peace and stability," Hong said at a daily news briefing, according to the Associated Press.
