日本'注意分析'中俄联合军演

choi

BBC Chinese, July 5, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _russia_drill.shtml
("NHK说，参加 [中俄] 军演的中国舰队7月1日从青岛出发后，一边实施训练一边穿过日本的对马海峡北上到联合军演地点")

My comment:
(a) there is no need to read the rest, which is speculative.
(b) China has said it is hemmed in by the first island china. So I was surprised that China's fleet passes through Tsushima Strait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsushima_Strait
(is the eastern channel of the Korea Strait; about 65 kilometres wide at its narrowest; a depth of about 90 metres)

Peter A Dutton, International Law and the November 2004 'Han Incident.' in Andrew S Erickson and Lyle J Goldstein, William S Murray and Andrew R Wilson (eds), China's Future Nuclear Submarine Force. Joint publication of China Maritime Studies and Naval Institute Press (2012), at pp 162-167.
http://books.google.com/books?id ... tcover&dq=China

Quote: "In the five international straits clearly affected by even the restrictive approach--the Tsushima Strait (in the waters between the Southern Island of Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula, depicted in Chart 2), the Osumi Strait (between Kyushu and smaller islands off the coast),  the La Perouse or Soya Strait (the northernmost strait between Hokkaido and Russia's Sakhalin peninsula), the Tsugaru Strait (between Hokkaido and Honshu)--Japan limited its territorial sea claims to LESS THAN twelve nautical miles in order to leave a band of international waters with high sea freedoms sufficient for ships to pass through without having to rely on a right of transit passage"  (emphasis added) p 167

(i) Meigezhuang Naval Base near Qingdao  青岛 姜各庄 核潜艇基地
(ii) Tarama Island or Taramajima  多良間島
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%9A%E8%89%AF%E9%96%93%E5%B3%B6  
(宮古島と石垣島の中間に位置し、沖縄県宮古郡多良間村に属する島である)

translation: an isle located between Miyako and Ishigaki islands, but administratively Tarama son 多良間 村, Miyako gun 宮古郡)
(iii) Straits of Corfu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_of_Corfu
(or Corfu Channel; Greek island of Corfu on the west)  
(iv) Ōsumi Peninsula  大隅半島
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csumi_Peninsula
(v) La Pérouse Strait
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_P%C3%A9rouse_Strait
(or Sōya Strait 宗谷海峡)
(vi) Tsugaru Strait  津軽海峡
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsugaru_Strait

* karui 軽い 【かるい】 (adj): "light"

choi

军演揭幕 但俄不愿卷入中国领土纠纷. VOA Chinese, July 5, 2013
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 130705/1695703.html
(20艘俄中战舰彼得大帝湾军演)

Note: Peter the Great Gulf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great_Gulf

In the satellite photo, look for Vladivostok as well as Golden Horn Bay or
Zolotoy Rog Bay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolotoy_Rog
(In 1859, Count Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky gave the harbour its present name, which means "Golden Horn" in Russian, alluding to a similarly shaped harbour in Constantinople)