2009年 03月 16日
南沙諸島の争い？ |
ジャパンタイムズに良い記事がありました。南沙諸島の新たな覇権争いについてです。
この論説記事はタイトルも地政学してて良いですねぇ（笑
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Maritime lines of conflict in South China Sea
By MICHAEL RICHARDSON
Special to The Japan Times
SINGAPORE — America's protest last week to China over the alleged harassment of two of its navy ships by Chinese vessels, and China's reaffirmation of ownership of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, highlight two festering maritime disputes. Either position could lead to conflict in the region unless it is carefully managed.
The tiff between Washington and Beijing resurrects a long-standing disagreement over the rights of coastal states in Exclusive Economic Zones that extend for 200 nautical miles from their shores, and the procedures to be followed by foreign military ships and planes when using EEZ waters and airspace.
The United States says its unarmed ocean surveillance ship Impeccable was about 120 km south of China's Hainan Island last Sunday towing sonars, when it was forced to leave the area after Chinese vessels engaged in "dangerous maneuvers" nearby. The Pentagon says another U.S. surveillance ship had been harassed days earlier in the Yellow Sea, 200 km from China's coast.
U.S. ocean surveillance vessels probe the ocean to gather acoustical data and detect underwater threats. Their work helps the U.S. Navy strengthen its antisubmarine defenses.
Although the U.S. has not signed the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea that regulates ocean use, it insists that its military ships and planes have freedom of navigation and overflight in "international" waters, including EEZs of foreign states.
China, which has signed the law of the sea treaty, maintains that military operations, hydrographic surveying and intelligence collection by foreign ships or planes can be carried out in an EEZ only with permission from the coastal state. Some Asian countries take a similar view, even though they may be reluctant to challenge the U.S. or other naval powers in the way China does.
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この記事では「アメリカは国連海洋法条約にサインしてないが中国はしている」という点が指摘されてますね。
理詰めで考えれば中国側のほうが強いということを匂わせておりますが、とにかくここでの一番の主張はこれから紛争が起こってくる可能性が非常に高いということです。
この論説記事はタイトルも地政学してて良いですねぇ（笑
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Maritime lines of conflict in South China Sea
By MICHAEL RICHARDSON
Special to The Japan Times
SINGAPORE — America's protest last week to China over the alleged harassment of two of its navy ships by Chinese vessels, and China's reaffirmation of ownership of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, highlight two festering maritime disputes. Either position could lead to conflict in the region unless it is carefully managed.
The tiff between Washington and Beijing resurrects a long-standing disagreement over the rights of coastal states in Exclusive Economic Zones that extend for 200 nautical miles from their shores, and the procedures to be followed by foreign military ships and planes when using EEZ waters and airspace.
The United States says its unarmed ocean surveillance ship Impeccable was about 120 km south of China's Hainan Island last Sunday towing sonars, when it was forced to leave the area after Chinese vessels engaged in "dangerous maneuvers" nearby. The Pentagon says another U.S. surveillance ship had been harassed days earlier in the Yellow Sea, 200 km from China's coast.
U.S. ocean surveillance vessels probe the ocean to gather acoustical data and detect underwater threats. Their work helps the U.S. Navy strengthen its antisubmarine defenses.
Although the U.S. has not signed the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea that regulates ocean use, it insists that its military ships and planes have freedom of navigation and overflight in "international" waters, including EEZs of foreign states.
China, which has signed the law of the sea treaty, maintains that military operations, hydrographic surveying and intelligence collection by foreign ships or planes can be carried out in an EEZ only with permission from the coastal state. Some Asian countries take a similar view, even though they may be reluctant to challenge the U.S. or other naval powers in the way China does.
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この記事では「アメリカは国連海洋法条約にサインしてないが中国はしている」という点が指摘されてますね。
理詰めで考えれば中国側のほうが強いということを匂わせておりますが、とにかくここでの一番の主張はこれから紛争が起こってくる可能性が非常に高いということです。
by masa_the_man
| 2009-03-16 17:40
| ニュース
