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Avasin Northrop Hawkeye:lle uuden ketjun ennen kuin luin tämän.
 
China's first aircraft carrier has set off to the Western Pacific, the navy says, describing the departure as part of routine exercises.

It is the first time the Liaoning has been deployed to "distant sea waters", state media report.

Details of the location, route or duration of the drill have not been given.

The exercise comes amid renewed tension over self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing sees as a breakaway province.

"A Chinese navy formation, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, headed towards the West Pacific on Saturday for scheduled blue-water training," Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported, quoting navy spokesperson Liang Yang.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38431999
 
Hyvä.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has laid wreaths and visited memorials in Hawaii ahead of a visit to the site of the 1941 bombing that plunged the United States into the second world war.

Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the historic visit and then headed to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, where he laid a wreath. He stood for a moment of silence at the cemetery near downtown Honolulu, which is known as Punchbowl.

He later visited a nearby memorial for nine boys and men who died when a US navy submarine collided with their Japanese fishing vessel in 2001. At the Ehime Maru Memorial, he again laid a wreath and bowed his head.

Abe will be the first Japanese prime minister to visit the memorial that honours sailors and marines killed in the attack that prompted America to enter the second world war.

Japan’s former leader Shigeru Yoshida went to Pearl Harbor six years after the country’s surrender, but that was before the USS Arizona Memorial was built.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...be-wreaths-hawaii-historic-pearl-harbor-visit

US and Japan reinforce 'alliance of hope' as leaders meet at Pearl Harbor https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/26/pearl-harbor-anniversary-obama-japan-shinzo-abe


Toisaalla Kiinan tukialus ryhmä savuttaa saaria kohti.

A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island’s defence ministry said.

The ministry said the carrier, accompanied by five vessels, passed south-east of the Pratas Islands, which are controlled by Taiwan, heading south-west. The carrier group earlier passed 90 nautical miles (167km) south of Taiwan’s southernmost point via the Bashi channel, between Taiwan and the Philippines.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-south-china-sea-near-taiwan-in-show-of-force
 
Liittyy Kiinan tavoitteeseen rakentaa syvän meren alueelle laboratorion, missä he voivat harjoitella ja kehittää teknologiaa avaruutta varten. Kutina on että tätä mallia Kiina ja Venäjä aikovat käyttää pysyvässä Kuu tukikohdassa. Jos tämä teoria on totta niin pinnalla olevat linnakkeet käyvät järkeen.

Toinen asia on sitten kaikki sulfaatit, magnaatit ja muut harvinaiset mineraalit, öljyn ja kaasujen ollessa kirsikka kakun päällä.

China aims to become a space power, according to a white paper on the nation's space activities issued on Tuesday.

The white paper, titled "China's Space Activities in 2016," was the fourth white paper on the country's space activities issued by the State Council Information Office, following the previous three in 2000, 2006 and 2011.

"The white paper sets out our vision of China as a space power, independently researching, innovating, discovering and training specialist personnel," said Wu Yanhua, deputy chief of the China National Space Administration at a press conference.

China's space industry took off 60 years ago and April 24 was declared National Space Day in 2016 as a focus for pioneering spirit and enthusiasm for innovation, Wu said.
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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/White_paper_sets_out_Chinas_vision_as_a_space_power_999.html
 
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Tämä korallien tuhoaminen henkilökohtaisesti ison vitutuksen kohde tässä konfliktissa. Onneksi Bloomberg teki artikkelin asiasta.

On a map of the world, the South China Sea appears as a scrap of blue amid the tangle of islands and peninsulas that make up Southeast Asia between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its 1.4 million-square-mile expanse, so modest next to its aquatic neighbors, is nonetheless economically vital to the countries that border it and to the rest of us: More than $5 trillion in goods are shipped through it every year, and its waters produce roughly 12 percent of the world’s fish catch.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/coverup-in-the-south-china-sea

In the run-up to all this, as most international observers watched the islands bloom in time-lapse on satellite photos, John McManus arrived with a film crew in February 2016, to document a less visible crisis under the water. To McManus, a professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami, the Spratlys aren’t just tiny chips out of a blue background on Google Maps; from dives there in the early 1990s, he remembers seeing schools of hammerhead sharks so dense they eclipsed the light. This time, he swam through miles of deserted dead coral—of the few fish he saw, the largest barely reached 4 inches.

“I’ve never seen a reef where you could swim for a kilometer without seeing a single fish,” he says.
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Varoitus, artikkeli on pitkä
 
Olen melko varma että Casper tulee katoamaan eteläisen kiinan meren alueelta.

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Courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Hohonu Moana 2016.

Last spring, researchers made Newly discovered 'Casper' octopod at risk from deep-sea minings with the discovery of what was surely a new species of octopod, crawling along the seafloor at a record-breaking ocean depth of more than 4,000 meters (about 2.5 miles) off Necker Island near Hawaii. The octopod's colorless and squishy appearance immediately inspired the nickname "Casper."

Now, a report published in Current Biology on December 19 reveals that these ghost-like, deep-sea octopods lay their eggs on the dead stalks of sponges attached to sea floor nodules rich in the increasingly valuable metals used in cell phones and computers.

"Presumably, the female octopod then broods these eggs, probably for as long as it takes until they hatch - which may be a number of years," says Autun Purser of the Alfred Wegener Institute's Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.

"The brooding observation is important as these sponges only grow in some areas on small, hard nodules or rocky crusts of interest to mining companies because of the metal they contain," including manganese, he adds. "The removal of these nodules may therefore put the lifecycle of these octopods at risk."

Purser explains that the deep-sea manganese nodules form similarly to pearls in an oyster. In a process that could take millions of years, metals gradually build up in rocky layers onto a small starting seed, perhaps a shell fragment or a shark's tooth.

"These nodules look a bit like a potato, and are made up of rings of different shells of metal-rich layers," Purser says. "They are interesting to companies as many of the metals contained are 'high-tech' metals, useful in producing mobile phones and other modern computing equipment, and most of the land sources of these metals have already been found and are becoming more expensive to buy."

Purser says that little was known about the creatures found in the deep-sea environments where those attractive metals are found. In a series of recent cruises, the researchers set out to find the organisms that live there and to understand how the ecosystem and animals might be impacted by mining activities.

Their studies have shown that octopods are numerous in manganese crust areas, precisely where miners would hope to extract metals of interest. The mineral-biota association that they observed is a first for any octopod lacking fins (a group known as incirrate octopods), and it puts these captivating octopods, which live their long lives at a slow pace, at particular risk.

"As long-lived creatures, recovery will take a long time and may not be possible if all the hard seafloor is removed," Purser says. "This would be a great loss to biodiversity in the deep sea and may also have important knock on effects. Octopods are sizable creatures, which eat a lot of other smaller creatures, so if the octopods are removed, the other populations will change in difficult to predict ways."

Purser says that he and his colleagues continue to study the nodules and their importance to microbes and animals both small and large, including starfish, crabs, and fish.
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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/N...octopod_at_risk_from_deep_sea_mining_999.html

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31286-6
 
Talvela kirjoitti:
Kiina jostain syystä haluaa että Pohjois-Korea saa mannertenvälisiä, samoin Venäjä uhkailee omillaan kaikkia, tämä johtaa juuri ydinsulun murtumiseen aikanaan tai kaikki joilla ei ole omia ovat muiden panttivankeja/vasalleja/orjia.
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Jep ja aina joku jolla on, on myös jonkun vasalli ja orja, jota voi käyttää esitaistelijana. Tässä tarkoitan P-Koreaa, joka voi uhkailla USAta ja jopa toteuttaa iskun, ilman, että Kiinan tarvitsee itse liata käsiään.
 
A group of Chinese warships led by its sole aircraft carrier is testing weapons and equipment in exercises this week in the South China Sea that are going to plan, China's foreign ministry said Wednesday.

Exercises by the ships, in particular the aircraft carrier Liaoning, since last month have unnerved China's neighbors, especially at a time of heightened strain with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, and given long-running territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

China says the Soviet-built Liaoning and the other ships conduct routine exercises that comply with international law.

"The Liaoning aircraft carrier group in the South China Sea is carrying out scientific research and training, in accordance with plans," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a regular news briefing.

"The purpose is to test the performance of weapons and equipment," he said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-carrier-taiwan-idUSKBN14O0ZX
 
The World Bank estimates that the South China Sea holds proven oil reserves of at least seven billion barrels and an estimated 900 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which offer tremendous economic opportunity for fast growing nations that surround those waters -- including the Philippines.

Duterte admitted that Manila could not just resume control of the resource-rich Scarborough Shoal from Beijing despite last July’s Hague-based tribunal ruling, as Philippines military forces couldn’t match Beijing's forces. "They'd be just wiped out in just one minute. There'll be a disaster," he admitted.

The bottom line: Beijing offered Manila something Washington couldn’t: the promise of peace and a partnership for prosperity.

Can Beijing deliver? It remains to be seen, as things get more complicated by the week in the South China Sea. In the meantime, Philippines's financial markets are in for further turbulence.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmo...ped-on-south-china-sea-disputes/#754b471b6361

Russian ships are considering conducting joint military exercises with the Philippines to fight maritime piracy and terrorism, according to a report from Russia’s state-run Sputnik News.

Russia’s Pacific Fleet is amid a five-day visit to the Philippines of vessels, led by Rear Admiral Eduard Mikhailov.
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http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/r...a/news-story/a13dedc86d701082b57814cc49c2a39c
 
Siirretty pari viestiä tästä ketjusta Korean Sota Osa II -ketjuun
 
Tillersonin mukaan Kiinan pitää vetäytyä alueelta, oli ehdoton tässä ja se oli Trumpin tiimin linja, rinnasti tilanteen Krimiin.
 
Amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state said Wednesday that Beijing should be barred from islands in the disputed South China Sea region.

Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of oil giant ExxonMobil, made the comments at his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He likened China’s building of islands and militarizing them to “Russia’s taking Crimea” from Ukraine.

“We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed,” he said.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/will-us-go-w...ing-should-be-given-no-access-islands-2474290

The first bomber flight took place Jan. 1, and the second occurred over the weekend. The flights represent a “show of force,” a U.S. official revealed to Reuters.

Chinese bombers flew along the nine-dashed line, a discredited territorial demarcation in the South China Sea, in December
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/11/c...s-circle-disputed-islands-in-south-china-sea/

Taiwan scrambled jets and navy ships on Wednesday as a group of Chinese warships, led by its sole aircraft carrier, sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the latest sign of heightened tension between Beijing and the self-ruled island.


China’s Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier, returning from exercises in the South China Sea, was not encroaching in Taiwan’s territorial waters but entered its air defense identification zone in the southwest, Taiwan’s defense ministry said.

As a result, Taiwan scrambled jets and navy ships to “surveil and control” the passage of the Chinese ships north through the body of water separating Taiwan and China, Taiwan defense ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said.

Taiwan military aircraft and ships have been deployed to follow the carrier group, which is sailing up the west side of the median line of the strait, he said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-carrier-idUSKBN14V061
 
Viimeksi muokattu:
Kiinalaislehdet uhkaavat Yhdysvaltoja "laajamittaisella sodalla" uuden ulkoministerin puheiden takia

Mailla on edessään laajamittainen sota, jos Tillerson aikoo toteuttaa suunnitelmansa estää Kiinalta pääsy Etelä-Kiinan meren saarille, kirjoittavat Kiinan valtiolliset tiedotusvälineet.

Lähde: http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9401549?origin=rss
 
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Mailla on edessään laajamittainen sota, jos Tillerson aikoo toteuttaa suunnitelmansa estää Kiinalta pääsy Etelä-Kiinan meren saarille, kirjoittavat Kiinan valtiolliset tiedotusvälineet.
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Tuossa ei ole paljoa vaihtoehtoja. Joko pistetään kova kovaa vastaan tai annetaan suosiolla Kiinan kaapata alue itselleen. Jos näistä päädytään ensimmäiseen vaihtoehtoon, kannattaisi varmaankin toimia mieluummin ennemmin kuin myöhemmin, Kiinan rakentaessa alueelle lisää tukikohtia yms. Obama on antanut tilanteen eskaloitua turhankin pitkälle.
 
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Tuossa ei ole paljoa vaihtoehtoja. Joko pistetään kova kovaa vastaan tai annetaan suosiolla Kiinan kaapata alue itselleen. Jos näistä päädytään ensimmäiseen vaihtoehtoon, kannattaisi varmaankin toimia mieluummin ennemmin kuin myöhemmin, Kiinan rakentaessa alueelle lisää tukikohtia yms. Obama on antanut tilanteen eskaloitua turhankin pitkälle.
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Tässä on jonkinlainen analogia Kuuban ohjuskriisiin 1962. Näissä kova kovaa vastaan -tilanteissa on vain se huono puoli, että jos kumpikaan ei peräänny, ja perinteisesti nämä ovat viime kädessä arvovaltakysymyksiä, on janan päässä ydinsota.
 
Sinun täytyy kirjautua vastataksesi.
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