中国建造首个海外军事基地 [美国媒体]

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DORALEH Djibouti—It was February this year when camel drivers first spotted the Chinese troops staking out a patch of coastal scrubland about 8 miles from the largest U.S. military base in Africa.

吉布提的多哈雷港口——今年二月的时候，赶驼人第一次发现中国军队在一片沿海灌木丛中打桩，那里离非洲最大的美军基地大约8英里远。

Chinese navy ships had visited this tiny East African nation before. They sometimes picked up supplies in the old French port farther down the arid coast during antipiracy patrols off Somalia.

中国海军之前已经到访过这个东非小国。他们有时会在这个荒芜海岸更远处的旧法国港口进行补给从而在索马里海岸进行反海盗任务。

This time the Chinese military was here to stay. The camel herders watched as the troops secured a plot next to a construction site where a vast new bulk and container port is taking shape.

这次中国军队停留在这里。骆驼牧民们看到部队驻守地紧挨着一个施工场地，在那里一个崭新的巨型散货和集装箱港口正在形成。

The 90-acre plot is where Beijing is building its first overseas military outpost—a historic step that marks a bold new phase in its evolution as a world power.

这90英亩的地块是北京建立的第一个海外军事前哨基地，这一历史性的举动表明了中国在成为世界强国的过程中进入了一个大胆的新阶段。

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Due for completion next year the naval outpost is expected to feature weapons stores ship and helicopter maintenance facilities and possibly a small contingent of Chinese marines or special forces according to foreign officers and experts monitoring its development. Its cluster of low-rise concrete buildings and shipping containers some with Chinese flags offers the most tangible sign yet of China’s strategy to extend its military reach across the Indian Ocean and beyond.

定于明年竣工的海军前哨基地有望配备武库舰和直升机维护设施，根据外国军官和专家监督其发展情况，可能派驻一支中国海军陆战队或是特种部队的小分队。一些带中国标志的低矮混凝土建筑和船运集装箱，提供了最明显的标志，中国的策略是要把其军事影响力扩大到印度洋及其以外的地方。

In doing so China is accelerating its transformation from an isolationist continental nation to a global maritime power a move that could challenge Western security partnerships that have underpinned the world order since 1945.

在这种情况下，中国正加速从一个孤立的大陆型国家转型为一个全球性的海洋型国家，此举将挑战1945年以来就已支撑世界秩序的西方安全伙伴关系。






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Charlie Mongoho 1 hour ago
China is now more influential in Africa than the US under Obama/Clinton so it makes sense for them. For the last 10 years or so US foreign policy strategic vision seems crucially lacking. The next US President will need to be a visionary or soon we will be asking China permission to sail in many waters.

目前在非洲，中国比奥巴马和希拉里治下的美国拥有更大的影响力，所以此举对于他们来说也就顺理成章了。
在过去的约十年间，美国的外交政策严重缺乏战略眼光。下一任美国总统必须高瞻远瞩，否则的话我们很快就需要获得中国的许可才能在许多水域中航行了。

Howard Carter 2 hours ago
Wait until they make it official in Panama. 

等着吧，他们也将会正式宣布巴拿马的事情。（注：好像有传言说巴拿马运河是由中国人控制的公司运营）

jerome ogden 6 hours ago
“Half of China’s oil imports pass through the nearby Gulf of Aden.”
It seems reasonable to me that any self-respecting Superpower would want to rely on its own military to protect its vital oil life lines from the Middle East not on the kindness of strangers in our Navy and its NATO subsidiaries.
The Pacific is also not immune to the new Superpower’s naval projection and not just in the South China Sea. A friend who lives in Vanuatu tells me the Chinese are building a large container port there on the strategically placed island of Espiritu Santo where the US Navy had its largest base west of Hawaii in WWII (“South Pacific’s” locale.) China also has a large embassy in that nation of 300000 doling out sweetheart loans to the government (ranked in the bottom decile in most corruption indexes.) We apparently can’t even afford to have an embassy there.
I’m betting on a Chinese “naval support base” in Vanuatu sometime in the next five years.

“中国半数的石油进口要通过附近的亚丁湾”
我觉得这合情合理，任何一个有尊严的超级大国都更愿意依靠自己的军事力量来保护其连接中东地区的至关重要的海上石油生命线，而不是看我们（美国）海军和北约下属国的这些外人的脸色。
不仅仅是南中国海，太平洋也无可避免地会有中国这个新兴超级大国的海军军力投送。我在瓦努阿图的一个朋友告诉我说，中国人正在那里的战略要地 —— 圣埃斯皮里图岛上建设一个大型的集装箱港，此处也是二战期间美国海军在夏威夷以西（南太平洋区域）的最大基地之所在。中国还在这个人口仅有30万人的小国设有庞大的使馆，并向该国政府提供了条件优厚的贷款（而该国政府在大多数的腐败指数上都排名倒数前十）。显然我们甚至负担不起在那里设立使馆的开支。
我赌中国在接下来五年内的某个时刻将会在瓦努阿图拥有“海军后勤基地”。

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John Gibbons 7 hours ago
The U.S.A. Department of Defence (DOD) is the world’s largest employer at 3.2 million. There are US military personnel deployed in 150 countries at present (75% of World Nations). It has been reported that no military in the history of mankind has been deployed more widely including Byzantine Ottoman Roman & British empires. China’s PLA employs 2.3 million in comparison supporting 4x the population. Chinese offshore interests are sizeable and expanding. Expect foreign military installations to grow lock step. JCG

美国国防部是世界上最大的雇主，雇佣了320万人。美国当前在150个国家（占世界国家总数的75%）部署有军事人员。据报道称，包括拜占庭、奥斯曼、古罗马和大英帝国在内，人类历史上从没有哪支军队的部署范围比美军更广。相比之下，中国的人口是美国的四倍，而中国人民解放军却只有230万人。中国拥有巨大的且不断增长的海外利益，可以预计他们的海外军事基地也将逐步扩展。

Gioklie Tanthe 2 hours ago
@James Merlotti
According to the west China should have collapsed more than a thousand times in the last 4 decades of active western bashing. What has really turned out was the US and the whole west are getting poorer and poorer. Strange that they couldn't predict their own impending poverty.

按照西方的说法，中国在过去40年西方的积极抨击下早该崩溃上千次了。但实际结果是美国和整个西方正在变得越来越穷。奇怪的是他们甚至无法预见到自己即将贫困临头了。

Charlie Mongoho 1 hour ago
@Gioklie Tanthe @James Merlotti Very true those who doubt about how China is getting richer I would advise to take a trip to any Chinese city you will be amazed on the quality of their infrastructure. I did not WWII types of trains anywhere when i was there unlike here....

说得真对。那些质疑中国如何变得富裕的人，我建议他们去任意一个中国城市走一趟，那时你就会惊讶于中国基础设施的高质量。不像这里，我在中国的任何地方都没有见过二战时期式的老旧火车。

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Neil Chapman 9 hours ago
The graphic should include the Australian port of Darwin as well.

此图也应包括澳大利亚的达尔文港。

MARK GIBBONS 9 hours ago
In the last eight years the U.S. has been rolled up and rolled over by China Russia Iran Syria et al. The Genie has long been out of the bottle and the press keeps putting on a "Surprise!" face that says "is there something going on we don't know about?"

在过去的八年里，美国已经被中国、俄罗斯、伊朗、叙利亚等国翻了个面。精灵早已离开了瓶子，而新闻界还不断表现出“惊愕！”的神情说：“还有什么事情是我们不知道的？”

Yeah we lost the battle AND we lost the war.   It makes me want to put on my "Duh" face.

是的，我们败了，我们失去了战争。这让我想做一个“废话”的表情。

Michael Whitehead 10 hours ago
Maybe their expansionary efforts can fuel a commodity bull market.  Maybe they can build their strategic reserve of oil and absorb the excess capacity in our system and bring oil prices back to 60/barrow. 

也许他们的扩张努力能刺激商品价值上涨。也许他们可以建立自己的石油战略储备，并吸收我们体系内的过剩产能，把石油价格带回到60/小推车（应为60美元/桶）。

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Gerard Muller 10 hours ago
To my mind the most significant fact presented is that half of China's oil imports passes through the nearby straits. This makes it crucial that these straits remain open to these oil imports for China.
Trusting China's security interests to others in the area is a longer term risky proposition for China. As the US oil embargo of Japan in the late 1930s demonstrated a nation without strong naval presence worldwide is subject to extreme economic pressure. Japan responded to the US oil embargo by attacking Pearl Harbor in the hope of neutralizing the US navy and so getting a settlement to avoid a long war since they didn't have enough oil for that. When the US refused Japan's terms Japan was doomed.
China doesn't want to find itself in the same position as Japan in 1940. So they are putting up a powerful navy able to operate worldwide so as to raise the cost for any belligerent US president in the near or long term who might want to take China on.

&Gerard Muller 我认为最重要的一个事实是中国一半的进口石油都要通过（吉布提）附近的海峡，使得这些海峡对中国石油运输保持开放至关重要。
对中国来说将石油安全利益托管给他国是一个长期的风险要求。正如1930s美国对日本石油出口禁令所体现的，一个在世界上没有强大海军实力的国家就会受制于巨大经济压力。作为对美国石油禁令的回应，日本偷袭珍珠港以期美国海军中立，从而为避免长期的战争获得一个解决方案，因为他们没有足够的石油来支撑。当美国拒绝了日本的条款，日本就悲剧了。
中国不想处于1940s日本所在的境况中，因此他们正在建立一支可以走向世界的强大海军，近期或未来任何好斗的美国总统对付中国的代价就会提升。

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James Hu 11 hours ago
@Juan Vega @Peter Stockman
Mr.Stockman has a very good grasp of things particularly:  "China's success does not make the U.S. a failure.  That is the thinking of a small insecure easily threatened person."
Historically China has been far more preoccupied with defense rather than offense.  The Great Wall provides great insights.

斯托克曼先生对现实状况有着准确的把握，尤其是在这一点上：“中国的成功并不就意味着美国的失败。这是一个缺乏安全感、极易感到受威胁的小人物才会有的思维方式。”
从历史来看，中国远远更加专注于防御而非进攻。他们的长城就是明证。

andres Garcia 10 hours ago
@James Hu @Juan Vega @Peter Stockman LOL....have we learned anything about human nature over all these years of human history. We are primitive and will continue to be until some Divine intervention changes our nature. Well meaning guys but NO!

哈哈。从人类这么多年的历史中，你们还不了解人类的天性么？我们人类是原始的，而且也将会一直保持如此，直到有神的干预来改变我们的天性。你们的意图是好的，但是不现实！

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Lyndon Bradish 8 hours ago
@Juan Vega @Peter Stockman Sounds great Juan but disconnected premises. If the population were as subservient as you would like to believe and as oppressed as I assume you believe then there must be a revolution in the wings..no?
The fact is if you spend some time in China you would realise that the Chinese are immensely proud of their achievements and look forward to the future. Problems abound for sure but what nation does not have problems?
Shangri-La does not exist.

&@Juan Vega @Peter Stockman  JUAN 你说的不错，但脱离了前提。如果（中国）大众像你所认为的那样恭顺、受压迫，那么革命一定在酝酿中，没有吧？
如果你在中国待一段时间，就会发现事实是中国人对他们的成就无比自豪，并期待未来。
问题当然不少，但哪个国家没有一堆事儿？
香格里拉（人间乐园-译者注）并不存在。

LEONARD BUBASH 13 hours ago
Sixty percent of Chinese exports to America are from are from American companies. The Chinese are becoming increasingly assertive (if not belligerent) on the world stage because they are flush with money - our money. Every dollar we send China buys them another bullet to aim at us they're massive territorial ambitions are being fueled by our trade deficit with them. TRUMP!!! is right - lets rebuild the U.S. Vote TRUMP!!! America

&中国出口到美国货物的60%是通过美国公司。在世界舞台上，中国人正变得越来越强硬（如果不直说好斗），因为他们财源滚滚——我们的钱。我们送到中国的每一美元都为他们购买了另一颗对准我们的子弹，由于我们的对华贸易逆差，他们对领土野心勃勃。让我们重建大美利坚，川普是对的！！！为川普投票吧！！！米国（- -！）

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Ray D. Chang 12 hours ago
@LEONARD BUBASH Predictably simplistic... China would love it if Trump is elected.  As the U.S. pulls out its military bases overseas under President Trump China will just move right in saving them the hassle of having to build the bases.

事实不出所料地简单，中国会喜欢特朗普当选美国总统的。在特朗普总统的领导下，随着美国从海外的军事基地撤出，中国就会马上搬进去，甚至都省去了修建基地的劳烦。

LEONARD BUBASH 11 hours ago
@Ray D. Chang @LEONARD BUBASH  We are trillions in debt - China has trillions in cash. With money you have options China is pursuing the military option. TRUMP!!! is a business man he wants peace and prosperity. Vote TRUMP!!! Mr. Chang. 

我们负债几万亿，而中国手上有几万亿的现金。有钱你就有多种选择。中国现在奉行的是军事选项。特朗普是一个商人，他想要和平与繁荣。投票给特朗普吧！Chang先生。

James Hu 12 hours ago
@LEONARD BUBASH
Mr. Bubash
Your pontification might be more impressive if you'd  only discern the difference in the usage of "they're" (contraction of "they are") versus "their" (possessive)---as a first step.
A reading of the history books would help too.

布巴什先生，
如果首先你能够分辨"they're"（"they are"的缩写）和"their" （所有格）这两者用法的区别的话，你的夸夸其谈或许会更令人印象深刻。
此外，读点历史书也会对你有所帮助。