JP空中巡逻南海+India's Feeler to JP on Subs+香港列入中国核心利益

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(1) 美军高官表示欢迎日本空中巡逻扩及南海. BBC Chinese, Jan 29, 2015
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/worl ... s_japan_air_patrols
("美国第七舰队司令，也是美国海军在亚洲的最高官员，罗伯特·托马斯 Robert Thomas 在接受路透社采访时表示")

Note: The report lacks details. Somewhat more is disclosed in the earliest report on this subject. (Still the Reuters report does not say when the extended patrol will start, the airbase--though Japan apparently is to deploy P-1, as Reuters hints, which is the equivalent of Boeing P-8 Poseidon. Yjere is no need to read the rest of the Reuters report, which rehashes what we already know.)

Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo 久保 信博, US Would Welcome Japan Air Patrols in South China Sea. Reuters, Jan 29, 2015 (10 hours ago; it's 1 pm, EST)
www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/ ... USKBN0L20HV20150129
("Those changes [PM Abe's postures] coincide with the deployment of a new Japanese maritime patrol plane, the P-1, with a range of 8,000 km (5,000 miles). That is double the range of current aircraft and could allow Japan to push surveillance deep into the South China Sea")


(2) Rajat Pandit, India Asks Japan If it’s Interested in Rs 50,000 Crore Submarine Project. Mumbai: The Times of India, Jan 29, 2015.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-asks-Japan-if-its-interested-in-Rs-50000-crore-submarine-project/articleshow/46049111.cms

My comment: India has wanted o build six diesel-powered submarines. "Rs" is India currency symbol, similar to $; "crore" is ten million in India. The newspaper describes India's invitation as a "feeler" on the part of Modi administration. There is no need to read the report.


(3) '占中' 结束后 香港被列入中国核心利益名单. VOA Chinese, Jan 29, 2015
www.voachinese.com/content/hongkong-china-20150129/2618194.html
("中国人民解放军副总参谋长孙建国日前 [on Jan 27, at 八一大楼] 在会见到访的美国国防部副部长迈克尔.维克斯 Michael Vickers 时表示，'在台湾、香港、东海、南海、网络安全等问题上，美方应切实尊重中方的核心利益和重大关切'")

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.