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BEIJING, June 29 – Singapore “Lianhe Zaobao,” 29 Journal article said the Chinese military has recently been held in offshore operations, naval and air exercises; National People’s Congress is considering legislation to protect the island; official media reported that China has continued to challenged the sovereignty of the South China Sea. China to prepare for the possible changes in the South China Sea.

article are summarized as follows :

South China Sea, China is the future changes that may occur, active military, legal and media preparation. Recent on-going military operations offshore naval and air exercises; National People’s Congress is considering legislation to protect the island; official media reported that China has continued to face challenges the sovereignty of the South China Sea.

“Liberation Army Daily” reported yesterday, the Chinese Air Force fighter fleet was organized in early June, after the first aerial refueling to carry out the training to go to sea, followed by the successful organization of a tanker to protect the fighter fleet more than one batch times more vehicles away from the coast cruise train, creating a fighter to go the farthest sea cruise and many other records.

Earlier, China Central Television, “the military report” program about China’s naval military exercises held in the South China Sea news, but also caused the Chinese military fans of discussion, that the protection of China’s sovereignty over the South China Sea has gone beyond the written and oral declaration, the possibility to take practical action is growing.

Chinese military more than one network also quoted the U.S. Navy Pacific Command Forum news that the Chinese naval fleet in May in the South China Sea Fleet held a large fleet of modern live-fire exercises. Exercise the use of nearly 30 ships, including 12 advanced submarines, and 3,500 members of the Navy Marine troops landing combat exercises to complete.

Xinhua reported last week, National People’s Congress is considering the establishment of special legal protection island ecology. Reported that China has 300 million square kilometers of sea area of ??500 square meters with over 6900 islands, the island has less than 500 square meters, tens of thousands.

China in 2003 by the State Oceanic Administration, Ministry of Civil Affairs and the PLA General Staff Department jointly issued the “Protection and Utilization of Uninhabited Islands regulations,” began the island management system.

quoted China’s NPC Environmental and Resources Committee XUE Hui-feng, director of the Bill, said the island Protection Act, “the island does not involve the issue of sovereignty is established in the context of a sovereign to protect the ecology of the island of administrative law”; China is the sovereignty of islands and marine national laws and regulations have “the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone” and the “Government’s statement on the Territorial Sea,” and so on.

official “World” magazine reported earlier this month, the waters around China this year in a series of “unexpected” event, or seemingly “coincidental” events, so that in 2009 China’s territorial seas from the beginning becomes quite quiet.

article, entitled “Central China island chain transaction,” the report said, on March 8 “Impeccable” and the May 1 “Victory,” U.S. Navy surveillance ship in the Chinese exclusive economic twice China to block the area suffered, the U.S. hawks advocating off again, “China’s maritime threat” of a new wave of noise.

reported that the U.S. strategic center of gravity in recent years began to shift to Asia, not only to strengthen the military alliance with Japan and South Korea, countries in Southeast Asia to obtain more military bases and ports in the berthing ships, taking off and landing aircraft rights, intended to re-consolidate the sea blockade of China’s “first island chain”; At the same time, the United States since 2003 have begun to significantly strengthen the group, including Guam, including the “second island chain” of military deployments.

reported: “Over the last decade the U.S. has never intervene into the South China Sea policy intervention, the Southeast Asian countries in the South China Sea erode support for the activities of light and shade.”

U.S. Navy confrontation between the South China Sea this year’s event, far more than “Impeccable” and “Victory” twice. According to the U.S. Cable News Network (CNN) reported that a Chinese submarine in the Philippines on June 11 Subic Bay, a U.S. warship near collision of towing sonar. Anonymous U.S. defense officials admitted to the media after the accident the U.S. Navy, “McCain” missile destroyer was on track Chinese submarines.

“Guangzhou Daily” yesterday quoted the CPPCC Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army general, former deputy chief of staff Zhang Li as saying China is facing the South China Sea has been divided crisis. China’s maritime territorial and maritime rights and interests of unprecedented threats and challenges.

Zhang Li said that more than 500 islands and reefs of Nansha, China controls only four of the Vietnamese control 29, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei each control more than three; China is not an oil well in the South China Sea, And there are more than 1,000 wells in other countries.

National Defense University professor Zhang Zhaozhong in the “China Week” interview, stressed, in view of international law and respect for the “pre-emption-based” principle, the first occupation and the implementation of effective management, will have a larger initiative on will be respect for international law, so the South China Sea dispute is not prolonged. (Ye Pengfei)