标题: Aircraft Carrier + Cook Islands : China [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-29-2012 09:26 标题: Aircraft Carrier + Cook Islands : China (1) David Lague, Analysis: China's Aircraft Carrier: in Name Only. Reuters, Aug 29, 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/2 ... USBRE87R15X20120828
("Reports in unofficial Chinese military blogs and websites say China planned to build these carriers at Jiangnan Shipyard's Chanxing Island shipbuilding base near Shanghai. However, professional and amateur analysts who study satellite images of Chinese shipyards have been unable to find any evidence of construction")
Note: Yalong 海南省三亚市 亚龙湾
(2) Paul Richter, Hillary Clinton's Visit Underscores New Value of Cook Islands. Don't know where they are? They sit in the South Pacific, where the U.S. seeks to strengthen its presence in the face of China's growing power in the region. Los Angeles Times, Aug 29, 2012 http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... th-pacific-20120829,0,4251912.story
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"Clinton's appearance at the Pacific Island Forum is part of a six-country trip that also takes her to Brunei, Russia, China, East Timor and Indonesia. Her last stop is Vladivostok, Russia, for the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum [in lieu of Pres Obama].
"(The Cook Islands are a self-governing parliamentary democracy, although its citizens carry New Zealand passports.)
"Neither the United States nor China belongs to the Pacific Islands Forum, which has 16 formal members.
"The South Pacific largely fell off Washington's diplomatic map in the mid-1990s, when the State Department closed its only aid office in the region because of budget cuts. It reopened the office in October in Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea, despite budget pressures.
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(a) Pacific Island Forum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Island_Forum
(founded in 1971; The Forum is an official observer at the United Nations; Besides members, 14 nations are dialogue partners, including US and China)
(b) Cook Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands
(a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand; The Cook Islands were first settled in the 6th century CE by Polynesian people who migrated from nearby Tahiti, to the southeast; British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777)