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标题:U.S. Says China Harassed Naval Ship
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标题: 月青年标题华盛顿---五角大楼指责中国不断挑衅---据传一艘美国监视舰在南中国海域被5艘中国船包围。美国官方周一宣称中国船只在国际海域的行为迫使美方不得不向中方提出正式抗议。不过该事件和美方的抗议应该不会动摇中美双方更广阔的联系。本周二中国外交部长杨洁篪将访问华盛顿，按照日程安排，杨将会见美国国务卿希拉里.克林顿和财政部长Timothy Geithner等。
五角大楼称中方飞机和舰艇以往在这一领域也常靠近美方飞机和船只，不过最近这一次“被认为是前所未有的具有挑衅性和不专业，非常有可能导致船只相撞或产生误解”。中方没有就此作出正式回应。华盛顿的一位中国外交官说他不知此事的详细情况，不过中方曾就美方监视舰在这一地区的行动多次向美方交涉。“维持稳定，健康的双边关系对中美双方都有益处。”
发生事故的海域距中国的海南岛75英里，在该岛南部方向，是广泛认可的国际水域，不过中方一直认为这一领域是中国的“专属经济区”。五角大楼称此事件发生在上周日，当时五艘中国船在明显的统一协调配合下包围了一艘按常规航行，毫无过错的美国海军监视舰，并企图将其驱逐。其中两艘中国船驶近离被包围的美国监视舰50英尺的地方，船员挥舞着五星红旗要求美方离开这一海域。
美国监视舰船员用消防水管朝着中方的一艘船喷水，
淋得中国船员全身湿透，不得不脱下衣服只穿着内衣裤，在这样的情况下，该船又驶近了25英尺。当美方监视舰打算离开时，船员用无线电要求中方让出一条安全通道，中方不但没有让路，
两艘中国船还直接挡在前方，
逼停美方监视舰。
华盛顿智囊团成员，战略和国际研究中心的中国安全事务专家Bonnie Glaser说，十几年来，双方一直在协商共同享用这一水域及空域，
不过几乎都不成功。
2001年，在同一地域，美方一架载有24名成员的侦察机和一架逼近的中方战斗机相撞，美机迫降在海南机场，机上成员被中方拘押；
中方战斗机坠毁，驾驶员死亡，是近几年来最为严重的中美外交事件之一。
Glaser女士认为这一事件很快就会过去，“双方都不想把此次冲突扩大化。”
中方和奥巴马政府都很重视双边关系。上个月希拉里在作为国务卿的首次国外访问中就去了中国和一些亚洲国家，而五角大楼的一位高级官员最近则透露20年里和中国的军事关系是美方最为看重的。
备注：CNN也有相关报道
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/09/us.navy.china/index.html
原文:
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon accused China of "increasingly aggressive" actions in the South China Sea after five Chinese vessels allegedly maneuvered close to a U.S. surveillance ship.
The Chinese vessels' alleged actions, which occurred in international waters, prompted U.S. officials in Washington and Beijing to lodge formal protests with their Chinese counterparts, U.S. officials said Monday. But the incident and ensuing diplomatic protests appear unlikely to shake broader relations between the two powers.
Both sides said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will proceed with a visit to Washington on Tuesday. During the trip, he is expected to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, among others.
The Pentagon on Monday said Chinese planes or ships routinely fly or steam close to U.S. craft in the area, but the latest actions "were considerably more aggressive and unprofessional than we have seen, and greatly increased the risk of collision or miscalculation."
The Chinese government didn't issue a formal response. A Chinese diplomat in Washington said he wasn't aware of the details of the episodes in question but added that China has frequently issued complaints to the U.S. about its surveillance activities in the region. Still, the diplomat said, "It is in the interests of both countries to maintain stable and healthy bilateral relations."
The area where the incident occurred -- about 75 miles south of China's Hainan Island -- is in broadly recognized international waters, but the Chinese have long considered it to be an "exclusive economic area" for its use.
The Pentagon said the incident occurred Sunday when five Chinese vessels shadowed and then surrounded the USNS Impeccable, a surveillance ship. The Pentagon described the Chinese action as "an apparent coordinated effort to harass" the U.S. crew while it was conducting what the Pentagon called routine operations.
After the Impeccable was surrounded, two of the Chinese vessels allegedly closed within 50 feet, the Pentagon said, as their crew members waved Chinese flags and told the Impeccable to steam away.
The Impeccable's crew turned its fire hoses on one boat, causing the Chinese crew members to strip off their wet clothes down to their underwear and close to within 25 feet, the Pentagon said.
As the Impeccable tried to leave the area, it radioed its intentions to the Chinese and asked for a safe path, the Pentagon said. But U.S. officials said two of the Chinese vessels stopped directly in its path, forcing the Impeccable to stop to avoid a collision.
For more than a decade, the two sides have been trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to negotiate common rules for sharing the waters in the area where Sunday's incident took place, as well as for sharing the airspace above, said Bonnie Glaser, a Chinese security-policy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
In 2001, a U.S. spy plane carrying 24 crew members collided with a Chinese fighter jet that was shadowing it in this area, sparking one of the most-serious diplomatic episodes between the U.S and China in recent years. The American plane made an emergency landing on Hainan Island, and its crew members were detained; the Chinese fighter pilot died as his plane went down.
Ms. Glaser predicted the dispute would be quickly defused. "I think neither side has an interest in escalating this."
Relations between China and the administration of President Barack Obama have gotten off to a strong start. Mrs. Clinton last month visited China and other Asian nations on her first overseas trip as secretary of state. And a senior Pentagon official recently suggested military relations between the two nations were at their highest point in almost 20 years.
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