中, 분쟁해역에 인공섬 추가 건설 Piling Sand in a Disputed Sea, China Literally Gains Ground
중국이 남중국해 영토분쟁 지역에서 또 다른 인공섬을
건설하고 있는 것으로 확인됐다.
뉴욕타임스는 9일 전략국제문제연구소(CSIS)에서 입수한
한 인공위성 사진을 공개하며 중국이 남중국해 미스치프
환초에서 준설 및 매립작업을 통해 인공섬을 조성하고
있다고 보도했다.
A satellite image from March 16 shows work on an emerging artificial island at Mischief Reef in the
South China Sea. Credit Center for Strategic and International Studies, via Digital Globe
Building Islands on Mischief Reef
These satellite images show Mischief Reef, part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. In the
March 16 image there are several dredgers visible at the northern and western edges of the reef, and
to the south, where the entrance to the reef has been widened to about 275 meters
By DAVID E. SANGER and RICK GLADSTONE WASHINGTON — The clusters of Chinese vessels busily dredge white sand and pump it onto partly submerged coral, aptly named Mischief Reef, transforming it into an island. Over a matter of weeks, satellite photographs show the island growing bigger, its few shacks on stilts replaced by buildings. What appears to be an amphibious warship, capable of holding 500 to 800 troops, patrols the reef’s southern opening. China has long asserted ownership of the archipelago in the South China Sea known as the Spratly Islands, also claimed by at least three other countries, including the Philippines, an American ally. But the series of detailed photographs taken of Mischief Reef shows the remarkable speed, scale and ambition of China’s effort to literally gain ground in the dispute. The photographs show that since January, China has been dredging enormous amounts of sand from around the reef and using it to build up land mass — what military analysts at the Pentagon are calling “facts on the water” — hundreds of miles from the Chinese mainland. The Chinese have clearly concluded that it is unlikely anyone will challenge them in an area believed rich in oil and gas and, perhaps more important, strategically vital. Last week Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of the United States Pacific fleet, accused China of undertaking an enormous and unprecedented artificial land creation operation. “China is creating a great wall of sand with dredges and bulldozers,” Admiral Harris said in a speech in Canberra, Australia. Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, on his first trip to Asia, put the American concerns in more diplomatic language, but the message was the same. In an interview to coincide with his visit, published Wednesday in the Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest dailies, Mr. Carter said China’s actions “seriously increase tensions and reduce prospects for diplomatic solutions” in territory claimed by the Philippines and Vietnam, and indirectly by Taiwan. He urged Beijing to “limit its activities and exercise restraint to improve regional trust.” That is the same diplomatic message the Obama administration has been giving to China since Hillary Rodham Clinton, then the secretary of state, and her Chinese counterpart faced off over the issue at an Asian summit meeting in 2010. ....... |
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