新闻来源：www.abcnews.go.com
原文地址：Chinese aircraft carrier comes closer than ever to Japan
新闻日期：2024-09-18
中国航母在日本周边海域首次航行，引发东京对北京的“严重关切”。
日本防务省表示，中国航空母舰辽宁号及其两艘驱逐舰在尤诺库尼岛和附近的伊里翁特岛之间航行，进入了日本所谓的“领海区”，该区域距离岸线不足24海里。
辽宁号所属舰队于周二和周三进行了调动，期间中国战船还通过了与日本控制的尖阁列岛西部海域，而中国称这些岛屿为钓鱼岛。
原文摘要：
A Chinese aircraft carrier entered an area near Japan’s shores for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s increasingly assertive military actions around Japan, officials said.
The Chinese carrier Liaoning, accompanied by two destroyers, sailed between Japan’s westernmost island of Yonaguni and nearby Iriomote, entering the country’s co-called “contiguous zone,” the Defense Ministry said. That’s an area of sea beyond a country’s territorial waters in which it can still exercise some control over maritime traffic, reaching up to 24 nautical miles offshore.
The Liaoning’s transit was part of a fleet movement Tuesday and Wednesday, during which Chinese warships also passed off the western coast of the disputed Japanese-controlled islets it calls the Senkakus, the ministry said. China claims the same islets, calling them the Diaoyus.
Japan’s Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroshi Moriya told reporters that “the latest incident is absolutely unacceptable from the perspective of the national and regional security.”
Last month, Japan said that a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance airplane violated Japanese airspace. Days later, a Chinese survey ship breached the Japanese territorial water just off the southern prefecture of Kagoshima.
Moriya said the Japanese government expressed “our serious concerns” to China through diplomatic channels on Wednesday.
“China has increasingly expanded and intensified military activities around Japan in recent years,” Moriya said. “We will continue to closely watch Chinese warships’ activity around Japan and the regional waters while ensuring information gathering and vigilance.”
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian defended the activity of his country’s warships, saying it “complies with China’s domestic laws and international laws.”
Tokyo had reinforced defenses in southwestern Japan, including remote islands that are considered key to Japan’s defense strategy in the region.
The Soviet-built Liaoning underwent extensive refurbishing before being commissioned in 2012 as China’s first aircraft carrier. The country now has two more aircraft carriers, including one fully designed and built in China.
