BBC：军方表示，中国应尽快建造航母

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【原文网址】http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4946624/China-must-build-aircraft-carrier-soon-military-says.html6 |4 L, _!

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军方表示，中国应尽快建造航母

中国海军自1980年一直在游说建造航空母舰。图片：法新社

在中国的议会——全国人大上，官方说，中国现在有技术来建造航母，并应当使用它。

海军将领胡延林（音）在官方认可的中国日报上发表了一篇标题为《要立刻建航母》的文章说：“建设航母是国家强大的象征，这是非常必要”。

他补充说：“中国有能力建造航母，也应该这样做”。这将不能不激起人们的猜测：经过二十年的研究，中国已经有能力建造自己的航母了。
这个评论出现在中国宣布2009年军费增加14.9%的两天后，自2006年以来，中国的军费开支增加超过百分之五十。

中国海军自上世纪80年代一直在游说建造航空母舰，但分析人士认为，被该国中央军事委员会拒绝，因为他们认为中国的崛起不应该显示要破坏地区安全平衡。

然而去年12月中国国防部一位发言人表示，航空母舰“反映了一个国家的综合国力”和满足现代海军的需要，这被视为表明：中国将尽快建造航母。

对于声称其增加军费将是影响亚太地区不稳定潜在因素的说法，中国政府是高度敏感的。

本星期早些时候，全国人大官方发言人李肇星对那些对中国增加军费表示担心的行为表达了愤慨。

他说：“中国有限的军事力量，主要是维护中国主权和领土，没有威胁任何其他国家”。

国防分析人士说，拥有航空母舰将使中国势力进入南海，可以被看作挑战美国在公海主导地位的长远计划的第一步。

然而，更直接的是，决定建立航母可能威胁中国与邻国日本，他们长期紧张的关系最近通过高层互访得到缓解。

根据日本“和平宪法”，航空母舰被认为是“攻击性武器”，中国建造的决定，一些分析人士认为，会使得日本重新考虑其非进攻性军事姿态的压力增加。

日本和中国在打击索马里海岸的海盗袭击中，交换情报，进行合作行动，这是首次两个竞争着的亚洲大国进行协同工作。

北京已经派遣军舰到印度洋，两艘日本海上自卫队驱逐舰， 预计在本月月末到达索马里海域。

【原文】
China must build aircraft carrier 'soon' military says

China must build an aircraft carrier "soon" if it wants to be taken seriously as a global superpower, a Chinese military official has said.

The Chinese navy has been lobbying for permission to build an aircraft carrier since the 1980 Photo: AFP

Speaking on the fringes of the National People's Congress, China's rubber stamp parliament, the official added that China now had the technology to build an indigenous carrier and should use it.

"Building aircraft carriers is a symbol of an important nation. It is very necessary," said Admiral Hu Yanlin in an article published in the government-sanctioned China Daily newspaper bearing the headline "Build aircraft carriers soon".

"China has the capability to build aircraft carriers and should do so," he added in remarks that will fuel speculation that, after two decades of research, China is ready commission its first carrier.

The comments come two days after China announced a 14.9 per cent increase in defence spending for

2009, a rise that will have seen total Chinese military spending increase by more than 50 per cent since 2006.

The Chinese navy has been lobbying for permission to build an aircraft carrier since the 1980s, but analysts say it has been over-ruled by the country's Central Military Commission anxious that China's rise should not appear to upset regional security balances.

However remarks last December by a spokesman for China's National Defence Ministry that aircraft carriers were "a reflection of a nation's comprehensive power" and were needed to meet the demands of a modern navy were seen as an indication that China would build a carrier soon.

The Chinese government is highly sensitive to claims that its increased military spending will have a potentially destabilizing effect in the Asia-Pacific region.

Earlier this week Li Zhaoxing, the official spokesman at the National People's Congress, bristled at suggestions that China's increased military spending was grounds for concern.

"China's limited military force is mainly for safeguarding our sovereignty and territory and forms no threat to any other country," he said.

Defence analysts say that acquisition of aircraft carrier, which would allow China to project power into the South China Sea, could be seen as a first step towards a long-term goal of challenging US pre-eminence on the high seas.

More immediately, however, the decision to build a carrier could threaten to expose a renewed rift with neighbouring Japan, whose long-strained relations with China have eased in recent years to enable top-level visits.

Under Japan's "peace" constitution, aircraft carriers are considered an "offensive weapon" and a decision by China to build a carrier would, some analysts believe, increase pressure within Japan to reconsider its non-offensive military posture.

Japan and China are expected to agree to exchange information and cooperate in operations against pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia, the first time the navies of the rival Asian superpowers will have worked in tandem.

Beijing has already dispatched warships to the Indian Ocean and two of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyers are expected to sail for the region before the end of the month.