Thứ Sáu, 1 tháng 1, 2021

Chín (9) bức ảnh chụp các SVSQ/TVBQGVN diễn hành trȇn sân cỏ Trung Ðòan.

 Chín (9) bức ảnh các SVSQ/TVBQGVN diễn hành trȇn sân cỏ Trung Ðòan.

 

Parade 1

Parade 2

Parade 3

Parade 4

Parade 5

Parade 6

Parade 7

Parade 8

 

Parade 9
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Th Tìm Hiu v 9 Bc nh Tiȇu Biu ca TVBQGVN

Trưc khi bưc vào phn phc chế (restoration) mt trong nhng bc nh đc bit này, chúng tôi (tôi) có nhn xét về:

1.      Hai bc nh Parade 3 và Parade 6 là hai bc nh có mt tin cân xng nht ca 2 doanh tri CD và GH. Hai bc nh này chp vào thi gian trưc năm 1970 vì không có Thư Vin. Thư vin đưc xây dng hoàn tt vào đu năm 1970 trưc Nhà Thí Nghim, và Nhà Thí Nghim (Ðào Thin Yết) hoàn tt cui năm 1970, trưc mùa Văn Hóa 1971 vì khóa 24 thc tp Vt lý trong năm th 4 trưc khi mãn khóa tháng 12/1971.

2.      Ba bc nh Parade 2, 3, 4 hoàn toàn khác nhau, ít nht là s sai bit thi gian chp nh.

3.      Bc nh Parade 7 vi 4 khi có đi hình 12X5=60 hưng v ct c Trung Ðoàn mà không v Phn xá. Toán din hành trȇn sân Trung đòan có th là bn đi đi AB, EF khong 240 SVSQ. Như vy c Trung đoàn SVSQ khong 500 SVSQ. Thi gian này có th K16, K17 đã di chuyn sang TVBQGVN vi khóa 18 sau mùa TKS.

4.      Parade 8, 9 là 2 parades khác nhau mùa hè vi quân phc kaki vàng. Nhưng hai nh đưc chp gn như ti cùng mt đim đt máy. Hai dãy doanh tri CD và GH không cân đi, nh chp sm nht mùa hè 1970 vì đã có Thư Vin.

Thứ Hai, 12 tháng 10, 2020

RVNCO: Diễn tiến thực hiện video TVBQGVN - Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng. Thử âm thanh cho video TVBQGVN Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng

 

Trường Võ Bị Quốc Gia Việt Nam – Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8QgR3qGkc8&t=2s

 Trường Võ Bị Quốc Gia Việt Nam – Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng (Part 3)

 
 

Trường Võ Bị Quốc Gia Việt Nam – Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng (Part 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7e_oXRrRQs

 

 
 

Trường Võ Bị Quốc Gia Việt Nam – Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8QgR3qGkc8




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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77GNi83h3Y

 Tiểu Sử Cố Nhạc Sĩ Trúc Phương (1933-1995) . Nghi Lễ Chào Cờ và Tưởng Niệm 15/9/2019

 


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The Vietnamese National Military Academy (VNMA)

 "Hãy trả lại Caesar những gì của Caesar."

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Diễn tiến thực hiện video TVBQGVN - Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng

Kính quý NT, các bạn và các NÐ:

Hiện nay chúng tôi đã sưu tập được 650 tấm ảnh tài liệu TVBQGVN và một video clip Lễ Trao Quốc Quân Kỳ TVBQGVN cho khóa 31 năm 2005. Theo dự trù bản thảo (draft) của video này sẽ được hoàn tất trong đầu tháng 11/2020. Bản thảo này có thể trở thành bản chính nếu không có gì phải sửa đổi.

Thiết kế:

1. Không căn cứ theo thời gian (chronology) mà theo các sự kiện về không gian (space, locations,) các bản đồ theo thứ tự là trưóc nhất (im lặng,) hình ảnh tập thể diễn hành, các chi tiết về kiến trúc TVBQGVN, các cuộc huấn luyện, các cuộc chinh phục đỉnh cao Lâm Viȇn, Núi Voi, Lapbé Nord, các hình ảnh tập thể, hình ảnh cá nhân trong không gian TVBQGVN, Credits & Thanks, Tưởng Niệm Những Chiến Sĩ Quốc Gia Hy Sinh Cho Tổ Quốc.

2. Chín (9) bản nhạc được giữ nguyȇn, hay có thȇm một (1) bản nhạc nữa.  Cân  bằng âm thanh và sắp xếp theo cường độ các sự kiện.

3. Thông báo ra public các bản nhạc này trȇn Blog VNR (Vietnam Review). 

4. Video sẽ được post trȇn Youtube™.

Kính mong các NT, các bạn, các NÐ gởi thȇm hình ảnh về Trường hoặc các ảnh đã chụp trong không gian TVBQGVN trễ nhất là ngày 22/10/2020 đễ chúng tôi sắp xếp các ảnh theo chi tiết nȇu ở phần 1. Hy vọng số ảnh sưu tập sẽ lȇn đến 700 tấm.

Trân trọng,

CSVSQ/K25

10/12/2020

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Thử âm thanh cho video TVBQGVN Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng

 


K/g Video Thử (Test) phần âm thanh cho video VNMA The Holy Land (60mins)

Kính thưa quý NT, quý bạn, các NÐ và các TTNÐH: - Phần test âm thanh cho video TVBQGVN Miền Ðất Thiȇng Liȇng gồm 9 bài hát theo thứ tự:

1. Nếu Một Mai “anh biệt kinh kỳ” Minh Kỳ - Hoài Linh Hoài Hương (2019).

2. Hát Ðể Tặng Anh Minh Kỳ Mai Thiȇn Vân (2010).

3. Chuyến Ði Về Sáng Mạnh Phát (1962) Thanh Tuyền (1975).

4. Chiều Cuối Tuần Trúc Phương (1962) Mai Hương (2019).

5. Chuyến Tàu Hoàng Hôn Minh Kỳ - Hoài Linh (1962) Hoàng Oanh.

6. Ðể Trả Lời Một Câu Hỏi Trúc Phương (1966) Hoàng Oanh (1975).

7. Trȇn 4 Vùng Chiến Thuật Trúc Phương (1970) Ngọc Như (2019).

8. Trăng Tàn Trȇn Hè Phố Phạm Thế Mỹ (1963) Giao Linh (1975).

9. Bóng Nhỏ Ðường Chiều Trúc Phương Hoài Hương (2019).

- TVBQGVN và Không gian TVBQGVN là thực thể đã, đang và tồn tại trong mọi không gian và thời gian bất chấp mọi thế lực nào đang chiếm đóng, kiểm soát trȇn và trong không gian này.

- Cổng TVBQGVN đen trắng nguyȇn thủy và được lựa chọn vì đầy đủ và trọn vẹn nhất. Tất cả hình ảnh đều được giữ nguyȇn thủy, không sửa chữa.

Thứ Tư, 7 tháng 10, 2020

NHỮNG HOẠT ÐỘNG QUÂN SỰ TẠI BIỂN ÐÔNG và TÂY THÁI BÌNH DƯƠNG: (AP) US expresses concern over China link to Cambodian base. (AFP) Cambodian PM says naval base not just for China. (BUSINESS INSIDER) Demolition of US-built facility at Southeast Asian base raises new fears about a secret Chinese military deal

 

 

US expresses concern over China link to Cambodian base

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-expresses-concern-over-china-124830755.html

Cambodian navy troop members stand on a navy boat at Ream Naval Base in Sihanoukville, southwestern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 26, 2019. Cambodia's government on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, officially denied suggestions that its demolition of a U.S.-funded facility at one of its naval bases is a signal that China will be granted basing privileges there, saying the work only involves planned infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia Naval Base

Cambodian navy troop members stand on a navy boat at Ream Naval Base in Sihanoukville, southwestern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 26, 2019. Cambodia's government on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, officially denied suggestions that its demolition of a U.S.-funded facility at one of its naval bases is a signal that China will be granted basing privileges there, saying the work only involves planned infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)


SOPHENG CHEANG

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The United States expressed disappointment Wednesday that Cambodia is tearing down a U.S.-funded building used for a maritime security program, and voiced concern that the action may be linked to the possible use of a Cambodian naval base by China’s military.

“Such a military presence would negatively impact the U.S.-Cambodia bilateral relationship and be disruptive and destabilizing to the Indo-Pacific region,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement distributed Wednesday by the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh.

Controversy over the Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand erupted more than a year ago, when The Wall Street Journal reported that an early draft of a reputed agreement seen by U.S. officials would allow China 30-year use of the base, where it would be able to post military personnel, store weapons and berth warships.

The State Department said the U.S. hopes Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will accept Washington’s offer of a dialogue to discuss how the United States “can support infrastructure at Ream that would benefit an independent Cambodia and all nations supportive of a free and open Indo-Pacific.”

Washington and Beijing are contending for influence in Southeast Asia. China is Cambodia’s closest political ally and main source of economic support, through aid and investment. Relations between Cambodia and the United States are rocky because of Washington’s criticisms of Hun Sen’s government for being undemocratic.

Concerns about China’s intentions for the area were heightened by a deal that gave a Chinese company control over a large part of the coastline, and construction of an airport on its land that appeared to be designed to accommodate military as well as civilian aircraft.

Hun Sen in June last year responded that China has not been given exclusive rights to use the base, while also saying that warships from all nations, including the United States, are welcome to dock there. He pointed out that Cambodia’s Constitution does not allow foreign military bases to be established on its soil.

However, the issue was resurrected last week with new reports in Western media about satellite photos showing the demolished facility.

Cambodia on Tuesday issued a statement saying that the demolition of the 7-year-old Tactical Command Headquarters at the Ream base and its relocation in a new building elsewhere was a planned upgrade because the existing facility was too small and lacked docking facilities, with limited capacity for training and other activities, It said the new facility would involve no change in function or relationships with foreign partners.

Hun Sen on Wednesday addressed the controversy again. Speaking at a ceremony opening an amusement park, he denied that Cambodia was allowing China to establish a base on its territory. He said that to clarify the issue, he has ordered the state television to rebroadcast, with English subtitles, his speech last year denying that China was being allowed to set up a base.

He also said he had ordered the Foreign Ministry to send an official diplomatic note to all foreign embassies in Cambodia to let them know his government’s position.

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Cambodian PM says naval base not just for China

 

China would not have exclusive access to a Cambodian naval base, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday, despite Beijing chipping in for upgrades after a US-funded facility was razed at the site last month.

The Ream base is strategically located in the Gulf of Thailand, providing ready access to the fiercely contested South China Sea -- a key global shipping route.

Beijing claims the majority of the resource-rich sea -- vying with six other countries.

"Other countries can also ask for permission to dock ships, re-fuel or hold (joint) exercises with Cambodia," Hun Sen said in a speech at the opening ceremony of a Chinese-owned theme park near the capital Phnom Penh.

Satellite images released by a Washington-based think tank last week showed a US-funded tactical naval headquarters on Cambodia's southern coast had been demolished.

An American embassy spokesman told AFP Wednesday that the US was "disappointed" by the move, adding the base had been a sign of US-Cambodia relations and was only seven years old.

"We have concerns that razing the facility may be tied to plans for hosting People's Republic of China military assets and personnel at Ream Naval Base."

Such a military presence "would negatively impact the US-Cambodia bilateral relationship and be disruptive and destabilizing to the Indo-Pacific region," the spokesman warned.

The Wall Street Journal last year reported on a secret draft deal allowing China to dock warships at the Ream base.

The Cambodian government in June denied this and maintained its foreign policy was independent.

Cambodia said the facility was simply being relocated about 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of Ream as it had outgrown the former site.

Hun Sen has repeatedly insisted Cambodia's constitution forbids any foreign military base within its borders.

In recent years, he has tilted away from the US after Washington's criticism of alleged abuses by his government.

suy/lpm/rs/qan

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Demolition of US-built facility at Southeast Asian base raises new fears about a secret Chinese military deal

Christopher Woody
A Cambodian flag flutters over the USS Mustin at the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, December 3, 2010. <span class="copyright">AP Photo/Heng Sinith</span>
A Cambodian flag flutters over the USS Mustin at the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, December 3, 2010. AP Photo/Heng Sinith
  • A US-built facility at Cambodia's Ream Naval Base was demolished in September, according to satellite images published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

  • The changes revive concerns about a secret deal between Cambodia and China that would permit Beijing to set up a military presence at the base, giving it a strategically valuable vantage point.

  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Cambodia demolished a US-built building at a naval base there last month, adding to concerns about a secret deal allowing China's military to use the base, even as Cambodia played down its actions.

Satellite images published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies last week showed the building, the Tactical Headquarters of the National Committee for Maritime Security, was torn down in September.

Another US-built facility nearby, the Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat Ramp and Boat Maintenance Facility, is still standing in the photos, taken on October 1.

Tea Banh, Cambodia's deputy prime minister and defense minister, confirmed the demolition but dismissed concerns. "We moved the facility to a new location. We can no longer keep it, and the building is already old," he told AFP on Sunday.

US-built facilities at Ream Naval Base, seen on October 1, 2020. <span class="copyright">CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Planet</span>
US-built facilities at Ream Naval Base, seen on October 1, 2020. CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Planet
The headquarters building as it stood on August 22. <span class="copyright">CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Maxar</span>
The headquarters building as it stood on August 22. CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Maxar 
The site of the demolished US-built headquarters building, seen on October 1. <span class="copyright">CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Planet</span>
The site of the demolished US-built headquarters building, seen on October 1. CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Planet

 On Monday, Cambodia's government officially denied suggestions that the demolition meant China would get basing rights. Prime Minister Hun Sen said earlier this year that China had not been given exclusive rights to use the base, and Cambodian officials have repeatedly denied it, often calling it "fake news."

But the destruction revives concerns raised by a July 2019 Wall Street Journal report, citing US officials, describing a secret pact between Cambodia and China granting the latter access to the Ream Naval Base for decades, permitting Beijing to station military personnel, store weapons, and dock warships.

According to the report, China also agreed to build two piers, one for it and one for Cambodia, though experts said dredging would be needed for Chinese warships to use the facility.

On Saturday, the chief of Cambodia's navy general staff confirmed that China was supporting a project to expand the port and build a ship repair facility there. The plan included dredging to deepen waters around the base, the officer told Nikkei Asia.

US officials learned of talks between China and Cambodia in 2018, prompting a letter from Vice President Mike Pence expressing concern about a Chinese naval base there. Concerns were piqued months later, when Cambodia suddenly turned down a US offer to repair facilities at the base.

That decision "fuel[ed] speculation" about "larger plans" for Ream "that involve hosting Chinese military assets," Joseph Felter, US deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia, wrote at the time.

Work at Ream isn't the only concern. The US and others have lobbied Cambodia not to let China's military use a new airport being built by a Chinese company about 40 miles northwest of Ream, a project that includes a seaport as well as tourist infrastructure.

The company building the airport has said it's for commercial use, but the runways are long enough for Chinese military aircraft, including bombers. While announcing sanctions against that Chinese firm, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there were "credible reports" that the facility could host the Chinese military.

Land reclamation underway at Ream Bay, August 22, 2020. <span class="copyright">CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Maxar</span> 

 Land reclamation underway at Ream Bay, August 22, 2020. CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Maxar

 

Images published by CSIS's Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative also show land-reclamation work being done by a Chinese company 3 miles north of Ream. The company has been doing the work since February and is one of many Chinese firms that have leased large plots of land around the base.

Cambodia's government also said in February that the coastal area around Ream would be the site of a $16 billion tourist resort area.

The dredging for that land reclamation began only four days after the project was announced and may be related to port infrastructure for that resort project, AMTI said, adding that "with current facilities at Ream Naval Base only able to host small patrol ships, any large port development nearby bears watching."

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The US-built Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat Ramp and Boat Maintenance Facility at Ream Naval Base, seen here shortly after it opened in July 2017. <span class="copyright"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/navfacpacific/posts/the-national-committee-for-maritime-security-ncms-cambodia-rigid-hulled-inflatab/461452830875850/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific/Facebook" class="link rapid-noclick-resp">Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific/Facebook</a></span>
The US-built Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat Ramp and Boat Maintenance Facility at Ream Naval Base, seen here shortly after it opened in July 2017. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific/Facebook

 Ream is near Sihanoukville, a focal point for Chinese investment. A Cambodian official said in February that the government wants it to develop it into a industrial and commercial hub "like Shenzhen" in China.

Beijing has provided support Cambodia's government even as other countries criticize its authoritarian record. US-Cambodia relations in particular have deteriorated in recent years.

AMTI director Greg Poling told Insider after The Journal report was published that a Chinese base at Ream was unlikely to resemble Beijing's South China Sea outposts, comparing it instead to China's base in Djibouti, its first overseas military installation, "which allows a modest Chinese rotational presence."

While it wouldn't give Beijing new power-projection capabilities in the South China Sea, a presence there would allow China to "project power, especially air power, over the Gulf of Thailand, Strait of Malacca, and Andaman Sea in a way it couldn't before," Poling added.

Other countries, including the US, have similar capabilities in the region, but the strategic implications of such a base worry Cambodia's neighbors.

The Malacca Strait is a major transit point between the Indian and Pacific oceans, including for the vast majority of China's energy imports. It has grown in importance amid competition between China and its neighbors, particularly India.

Indian concern about China's naval activity in the Indian Ocean has increased since Chinese submarines appeared there in 2014.

New Delhi has beefed up its naval and air capabilities and sought to improve its maritime awareness in the area, in part by boosting its presence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a valuable vantage point near the Malacca Strait.

In late September, a US Navy P-8 Poseidon — considered the best sub-hunting plane in the world — landed at India's base there for refueling, a first for US aircraft under a US-India logistics agreement signed in 2016.

This story has been updated with Cambodia's official denial on Monday.

Read the original article on Business Insider

 

Thứ Tư, 16 tháng 9, 2020

The Arms Race. (Reuters) Russia, China, Iran militaries joint exercises. (AFP) Eyeing China, Pentagon plans larger, 'more lethal' navy. (Reuters) Japan lawmakers call for military drills with U.S. around disputed islets. (AP) Indonesian patrol confronts Chinese ship in economic zone.

 The Arms Race

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 Politics

Russia, China, Iran militaries joint exercises

 The military drills will take place at several firing ranges and airfields in southern Russia. The navy part of the drills in both the Black Sea and Caspian Sea will be joined by the Iranian navy, the ministry said. The defence ministry also said that the exercises will involve around 1,000 military personnel from Armenia, Belarus, China, Myanmar, and Pakistan. The exercises will be observed by representatives of other nations including Iran. Russia said the drills will involve around 80,000 personnel including Russian missile defense and navy units, as well as officers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the Russian Guard. According to the ministry, the drills will also feature up to 250 tanks, 450 military personnel carriers and 200 artillery systems.

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World

Eyeing China, Pentagon plans larger, 'more lethal' navy

Projecting US power: the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, based in the western Pacific
Projecting US power: the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, based in the western Pacific

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced Wednesday an ambitious plan to expand the US Navy with a range of unmanned and autonomous ships, submarines and aircraft to confront the growing maritime challenge from China.

The Pentagon chief said a sweeping review of US naval power dubbed "Future Forward" had laid out a "game-changer" plan that would expand the US sea fleet to more than 355 ships, from the current 293. 

The plan, which requires adding tens of billions of dollars to the US Navy's budget between now and 2045, is aimed at maintaining superiority over Chinese naval forces, seen as the primary threat to the United States.

"The future fleet will be more balanced in its ability to deliver lethal effects from the air, from the sea, and from under the sea," Esper said in a speech at the Rand Corp. in California.

The expansion will add "more and smaller" surface ships; more submarines; surface and subsurface vessels that are optionally manned, unmanned and autonomous; and a broad range of unmanned carrier-based aircraft. 

The plan is for a fleet of ships more able to survive a high-intensity conflict, to project US power and presence, and to deliver precision strikes at very long distances, he said.

An example, Esper added, is a new guided missile frigate program, producing ships with "increased lethality, survivability, capability and capacity to conduct distributed warfare."

He also said trials were underway on the Sea Hunter, a 132-feet (40 meters) trimaran drone that can autonomously survey the seas for rival submarines for more than two months at a time.

"These efforts are the next step in realizing our future fleet, one in which unmanned systems perform a variety of warfighting functions, from delivering lethal fire and laying mines, to conducting resupply or surveilling the enemy," Esper said.

"This will be a major shift in how we will conduct naval warfare in the years and decades to come."

- Chinese navy larger -

Esper reiterated that China is the top US security threat and that the Indo-Pacific region is the "priority theater" for the US military.

"Not only is this region important because it is a hub of global trade and commerce, it is also the epicenter of great power competition with China," he said.

A Pentagon report on the People's Liberation Army released early this month said that Beijing has the world's largest naval fleet with 350 ships and submarines.

Still, Esper stressed, the Chinese navy lags in strength and capability.

"Even if we stopped building new ships, it would take the PRC years to match our capability on the high seas."

Esper said reaching the goal of 355 ships means the navy will have to grab a larger percent of the Pentagon budget, but also that the United States has to put more resources into expanding and modernizing shipyards, where China has a clear advantage. 

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World

Japan lawmakers call for military drills with U.S. around disputed islets

A Chinese fisheries surveillance vessel cruises in the waters near Kuba island, one of the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku isles in Japan, Diaoyu islands in China
A Chinese fisheries surveillance vessel cruises in the waters near Kuba island, one of the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku isles in Japan, Diaoyu islands in China

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese lawmakers on Thursday compiled a draft proposal urging the government to hold joint military drills with the United States around a group of East China Sea islands administered by Japan but claimed by China to fortify Tokyo's control over them.

Japan's ties with China have been strained by the long-running row over the uninhabited East China Sea islets, called the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.

"The Defence Ministry should conduct joint drills with the United States around the Nansei Islands chain including Kuba island and Taisho island," said the proposal, drafted by a group of ruling party lawmakers.

Kuba and Taisho are part of what Japan calls the Senkaku islands.

Japan's latest defence white paper, published in July, said China's maritime and air forces have been stepping up their activities around the islands, creating a situation that warrants deep concerns.

The proposal, which also calls for allocating more money, ships and personnel to the coastguard to bolster maritime law enforcement around the islands, will be submitted to the government next week.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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Indonesian patrol confronts Chinese ship in economic zone

EDNA TARIGAN

 This undated photo released on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, by Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (BAKAMLA) shows a Chinese Cost Guard ship sails in North Natuna Sea. An Indonesian patrol ship confronted the Chinese vessel that spent almost three days in waters where Indonesia claims economic rights and that are near the southernmost part of China's disputed South China Sea claims. (Indonesian Maritime Security Agency via AP)

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian patrol ship confronted a Chinese coast guard vessel that spent almost three days in waters where Indonesia claims economic rights and are near the southernmost part of China's disputed South China Sea claims.

The Indonesian Maritime Security Agency said it detected Chinese ship 5204 entering Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone in what Indonesia calls the North Natuna waters on Friday night.

The agency sent a patrol ship that closed within a kilometer (0.6 mile) of the Chinese coast guard vessel and they communicated to affirm their position and their nation's claims to the area, said Aan Kurnia, chief of the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency.

“We asked them to move out as it was Indonesia’s EEZ. But they insisted that it is China’s nine-dash- line territory. Our officers at the vessel argued with them until they moved out," Kurnia said. He said he reported the incident to Indonesian government ministers.

 

“The Chinese coast guard vessel finally left the North Natuna Sea on Monday at 11:20 a.m.,” he said.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin indicated that China saw nothing wrong with the ship's actions and said the two countries are in contact over “relevant maritime issues."

“China’s rights and interests in the relevant waters of the South China Sea are clear," Wang said at a daily briefing on Tuesday. “As far as I know, Chinese coast guard vessels have been performing normal patrols in the waters under China’s jurisdiction."

China’s “nine-dash line” delineates its claim to virtually the entire South China Sea. A 2016 international arbitration ruling involving the Philippines invalidated most of China’s sweeping claims in the sea, but China has ignored the ruling and called it a sham.

Indonesia does not have a territorial claim to the South China Sea, but a section of Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone that includes natural gas fields lies within China's “nine-dash line." Chinese ships have regularly entered the area Indonesia calls the North Natuna Sea, causing tensions between the countries.

China has in the past explained its presence in those waters on the basis of “traditional fishing rights."

Chinese ships also regularly patrol off the island of Borneo and near James Shoal east of the Natuna islands, China’s southernmost territorial claim which Malaysia says belongs to it.

The South China Sea accounts for more than 10% of the global fish catch and surrounding states have taken increasingly extreme measures to ensure they obtain their share. Stocks have declined drastically amid overfishing and the destruction of coral reefs, to the point that they may be on the verge of collapse, according to some studies.

The Indonesian patrol ship KN Pulau Nipah 321 has been deployed for such patrols in Indonesia’s western maritime zone until November.

The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry has communicated to the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta to explain the coast guard's presence, spokesperson Teuku Faizasyah said.