中国外海实战军演惊动澳大利亚

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VOA Chinese, Feb 19, 2014
www.voachinese.com/content/china-austarlia-20140219/1854938.html
("中国南海舰队的一个分队1月底从海南岛基地出发，直下南中国海，进入卡里马塔海峡，再穿过巽他海峡拦腰切过印度尼西亚。在那里，中国战舰举行了实战演练，之后穿过龙目海峡，经望加锡海峡进入西太平洋")

Note:
(a) Wall Street Journal will publish a print report on this topic tomorrow. The following two are from Australia.
(i) David Wroe, China's Military Might Is Australia's New Defence Reality. Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 15, 2014
www.smh.com.au/world/chinas-mili ... 20140214-32rb1.html

The map is very helpful.
(ii) Michael Brissenden, RAAF Monitored Chinese Military Exercise in Waters Between Christmas Island and Indonesia. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Feb 13, 2014
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-13/c ... f-australia/5257686
(“an unprecedented and unannounced exercise involving three Chinese warships in international waters to the north of Australia”/ “For the first time, the Chinese navy sent warships sailing through the Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra”)

There is no need to read the rest of either report.
(b) Karimata Strait
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karimata_Strait
(Indonesian: Selat Karimata; the wide strait that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea [qv], dividing the islands of Sumatra and Borneo (Kalimantan), both bordering the strait from Indonesian territory.The strait is about 150 km wide

* Kalimantan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimantan

(c) Sunda Strait
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunda_Strait
(The name comes from the Indonesian term Pasundan, meaning "West Java;" with a minimum width of 24 km (15 mi) at its north-eastern end))
(d) Lombok Strait
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombok_Strait
(located between the islands of Bali and Lombok in Indonesia; "Its narrowest point is at its southern opening, with a width of about 20 km between the islands of Lombok and Nusa Penida, in the middle of the strait. At the northern opening, it is 40 km across")
(e) My research is all the three straits are international waters.