text/Seven Little Wolves
"As the aircraft carrier comes, New Delhi is peaceful! When the aircraft carrier comes, there is a blue sky..." On July 20, local time, the news that the US aircraft carrier strike group was about to arrive at Andaman Islands spread from Malacca to Leh, and from Leh to New Delhi, until it spread throughout India.
(Photo source: India Today)
According to the website of India Today, on July 18, the Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group had crossed the Malacca Strait and entered the Indian Ocean. It is currently rushing to Andaman-Nicobar Islands .
reported that the US and Indian armies will conduct joint military exercises in the Andaman-Nicobar Islands. Just when the US aircraft carrier was still on the road, Indian netizens had already posted a photo of the Indian Navy "Vicramatia" and "Nimitz". Those who don't know would think that India was far away from Gao Ying to drive its aircraft carrier to the Strait of Malacca.
(Photo source: social media)
And what is even more embarrassing is that this group photo was originally a photo of the aircraft carriers of the United States, India and Japan in the 2017 "Malabar" exercise, but Japan's "Izumo" was cut off...
(Photo source: US Navy)
Speaking of this "Malabar" military exercise, the bureau has said that this is a joint military exercise led by the United States and India. Since 1992, once a year. Since 2015, Japan has become an official member of the "Malabar" military exercise. It was also from this time that the targeting of this military exercise became increasingly obvious, and it was obviously to encircle China.
In 2017, the United States, India and Japan dispatched 3 aircraft carriers, 15 warships and dozens of military aircraft (Photo source: US Navy)
Before this, there was news that India would invite Australia to participate in the "Malabar" military exercise. If this news is true, then this year's "Malabar" military exercise will be expanded to the United States, India, Japan and Australia. Given that India and the United States have aircraft carriers, Japan and Australia are estimated to be outdone and also sent their own aircraft carriers to participate in the exercise. If the trouble is not good, they will have to set up a "big drama" of four aircraft carrier formations blocking the Strait of Malacca in the second half of this year.
2019 "Sabre Saber" exercises for the United States, Japan and Australia. (Photo source: US Navy)
"India Today" claims that this move is a "strong strategic signal to China" after the conflict between China and India. This means it is like how much grievances India has suffered at the border, and now it is finally waiting for the United States to "break" it.
India's only aircraft carrier is the "Vicramatia" aircraft carrier bought from Russia. This aircraft carrier was designed and built by the Soviet Union and was later modified and upgraded by Russia, with the dual buff of the "combat nation". The "Vicramatia" is smaller than the "Marshal Kuznetsov" class aircraft carrier in tonnage and size, and is also equipped with the MiG-29K carrier-based aircraft known as the "Airport Defender".
(Photo source: Indian Navy)
Although the Nimitz was in service for 38 years earlier than the Vikramatia, its nuclear power, steam catapult, F/A-18F "Super Hornet" and 100,000 tons of water displacement can crush India's aircraft carriers in all aspects.
(Photo source: US Navy)
For India, conducting joint exercises with US aircraft carriers can learn a lot of mature experience and technology of the US military and improve its combat effectiveness; for the United States, it can fully use ski-jump decks and conventional-powered aircraft carriers as imaginary enemies during the exercises, in order to accumulate experience in combating Chinese and Russian aircraft carriers.
Of course, for the general public, instead of paying attention to what tactical projects the United States and India will practice, it is better to care about whether the "Vicramatia" will catch fire this time.
Maybe most little oranges know the meme “as long as she doesn’t catch a fire”. In 2012, the bureau chief said that 7 of the eight boilers of the "Vicramatia" were burned out.The predecessor of the Vikramatia, Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, had a boiler explosion in 1994, so the concerns of the bureau are not unreasonable~
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But you don’t know. Regarding fire, the “Nimitz” is “the five elements are missing, and the eight characters are not roasted. . "
(Picture: Mark)
On May 26, 1981, while the USS Nimitz was conducting night training in northern Florida waters, an EA-6B electronic warfare aircraft suddenly drifted to the right when landing. It collided with 1 SH-3 helicopter, 3 A-7E attack aircraft, 3 F-14 fighters and a tractor respectively. The EA-6B exploded during the impact, and the fire lasted for half an hour, and the front deck of the Nimitz was burned in a mess.
EA-6B Explosion moment
The carrier-based aircraft after overshooting (above picture source: US Navy)
On November 30, 1988, the "Nimitz" carried out a mission in Arabian Sea . During this period, a sailor repaired the near-defense gun on the aircraft carrier, but the gun suddenly went fire. A 20mm cannon directly killed a KA-6 attack aircraft on the deck, and the plane exploded instantly and caused a fire. The fire then spread to six other planes, during which two people died.
(Photo source: Youtube)
Just before this article was published, a fire broke out in the USS Kennedy, the second ship of the US Ford-class aircraft carrier, which was the third warship of the US military to have a fire in the port in half a month... Now "Nimitz" has encountered "Vicramatia", and I don't know what kind of sparks they will collide~
continue today, listen to the bureau talk about the historical verification of the South China Sea issue 06.
1962
1962, a report by the Vietnam People's Daily on Xisha Islands wrote: "On September 9, 1962, a U-2 aircraft invaded the airspace of China's Guangxisha Islands and was shot down by the People's Liberation Army.
In the same year, the Second International Ocean Conference was held, which was another grand event held after 1958. The ocean awareness of various countries has increased, and they pay more and more attention to their own maritime rights and interests. Southeast Asian countries have increased their maritime disputes. Almost all Southeast Asian countries have territorial or territorial sea disputes exist between them. 196 After the release of Emory's report "Seeds in Shallow Waters of the East China Sea and the South China Sea", the issue of sovereignty in the South China Sea, which had never been raised, has also become the focus of disputes between neighboring countries.
K.O. Emory (Photo source: Woods Hall Institute of Oceanography)
In the same year, after the China-India border dispute broke out, the Indian government proposed that one person or some people be nominated for some international arbitration through the two countries to make a binding ruling against both governments. The Chinese government sternly rejected India's proposal. It believes that the Sino-Indian border dispute involves the sovereignty of the two countries. The major issue, and the area involved is as large as tens of thousands of square kilometers. It goes without saying that it can only be resolved through direct negotiation between the two sides, and it is never possible to resolve through any form of international arbitration.
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"Tokyo Bay Incident" scene (Photo source: history)
The United States launched the Vietnam War, and the South China Sea became a shortcut for the United States to transport troops and arms materials to the Vietnam battlefield and to carry out military provocations and even invasions on China's mainland. During the war, the United States always controlled the air and sea control rights in the South China Sea.
On September 1, the South Vietnamese government announced its 12-navious territorial sea and drew a 12-navious territorial sea line in Beibu Gulf .
1965
1965, in the three naval battles in the Taiwan Strait, the navy of the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan suffered heavy blows, indicating that the PLA's navy's coastal combat capabilities have been greatly improved. Since then, the Taiwan authorities have been forced to give up "political landings", and the harassment and offenses on the mainland have been greatly reduced.
The situation in the Taiwan Strait changed from military confrontation to military confrontation, and armed conflict and maritime battles gradually stopped. The attention of our People's Navy began to shift from the southeast coast to the southern coast, from protecting coastal security to defending national sovereignty and maritime territory.
In the same year, the map published by France not only marked the Chinese names of the Xisha, Nansha and Dongsha archipelago in French pinyin, but also indicated that it belongs to "China" after the names of each island.
1966
1966 to 1972, the yearbook published by Japan pointed out: "China's coastal line, from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Nansha Islands in the north, and the coastline of coastal islands reaches 20,000 kilometers." China "except part of the mainland's territory, there are Hainan Island, Taiwan, Penghu Islands and the Dongsha, Xisha, Zhongsha , Nansha Islands in the South China Sea, etc.."
The New China Yearbook published by Japan states that China's coastal line is more than 11,000 kilometers from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Nansha Islands in the north.
1967
1967, a United Nations continental reef detection mission. A report was submitted at that time, claiming that the continental shelf oil mines are very abundant in the Indochina Peninsula and the South China Sea region, and its reserves are equivalent to all countries in the Middle East , plus Venezuela, the southeastern United States, and even some areas in South America.
In October, the Taiwanese civil group "Summer Sports Activity Southern Xinjiang Voyager" went to the Nansha Islands to set up a "Southern Xinjiang Barrier" stone tablet.
1969
1969, there were many scientists in the relevant United Nations marine institutions, including Americans, who visited the East China Sea in our South China Sea and made a report when we returned, which also believed that this area contained rich oil and natural gas resources and richer fishery resources.
These reports have caused a thousand waves. Some countries believe that being able to control these islands and reefs controls marine resources, so they began to seize islands and reefs after the 1970s. International geological exploration has discovered that there are more than 20 billion tons of oil and gas reserves in the Nansha Islands. Based on economic interests, countries such as Philippines , Vietnam have successively put forward sovereignty claims over the Nansha Islands.
In October, Malaysia and Indonesia signed a agreement on demarcation of continental shelf between the two countries. The eastern section of the baseline includes a wide range of Nansha waters from Anbo Sandzhou, Bai Reef, Nanhai Reef, Duji Reef , Yuya Unsha, Zhizhi Reef, Nanle Unsha, Nanle Unsha, to the south of Dupu Unsha, including Zengmu Unsha Basin and Brunei Saba Basin.
Malaysia defines the continental shelf as a seabed and subsoil connected to its territorial waters, with a depth of seawater not exceeding 200 meters, or overlaid waters allow the exploitation of natural, biological or non-biological resources.
Indonesia announced the mining area occupied the southwestern part of the Zengmu Basin within our historical boundary, with an area of about 35,000 square kilometers. At the same time, it signed a contract with seven foreign companies, completed 30 wells, and discovered and mined a large gas field. In the Indonesian mining area, major foreign companies are preparing to go big and believe that the area is one of the world's unexplored and developed oil prospects.
1969
1969, the International Law Court clearly pointed out in the judgment of the "North Sea Continental Shelf Case" that "land dominates the ocean" is a basic principle of international law, "land is the legal source of the exercise of power over the extension of its territory to the sea." Only when a country has sovereignty on the continent or island can it be possible for a country to enjoy sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the waters near the land or island.
International Court of Justice ruled the North Sea continental shelf case (Photo source: wikipedia)
In order to resolve disputes on sovereignty among land and islands, international law has formed a relatively mature set of international law rules in the long-term evolution, and disputes on sea demarcation only appeared in large numbers in the 20th century as countries competed to expand the scope of national jurisdiction.
The principles of international law applied to resolving territorial sovereignty disputes and resolving the issue of sea demarcation are fundamentally different. The basic principles established by the International Convention on the Law of the Sea apply only to the resolution of sea demarcation disputes, not to resolve the issue of attribution of islands. Only the legal principles on the acquisition of territorial sovereignty in international law, such as discovery and preoccupation, can be applied to resolving disputes on ownership of islands.
The International Convention on the Law of the Sea also stipulates: "Confirmation of matters not stipulated in this Convention should continue to be based on the rules and norms of general international law."
1970
1970 and 1971, the Philippines sent troops to occupy three islands of the Nansha Islands.
1971
In July 1971, the Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs "notes" to the Taiwan authorities in China to protest that its troops were stationed in Taiping Island "threatening the security of the Philippines."
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