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A satellite image shows Subi Reef, one of China’s four main bases and artificial islands in the South China Sea, July 3, 2020. Planet Labs Inc.

China has deployed warships and sent fighter jets on a long-haul flight to bases it occupies in the disputed Spratly island chain, according to satellite imagery and state media, in the latest show of Chinese military strength in the South China Sea.

That comes ahead of a major, multi-nation military exercise led by the United States planned for Aug. 17 to 31 near Hawaii which will be attended by nations across the Indo-Pacific. A Philippine naval ship has already set sail for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) drills. Other nations expected to attend include Vietnam, Australia, Brunei, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia.

卫星图像显示了苏比礁（Subi Reef），这是中国在南中国海的四个主要基地和人工岛之一，2020年7月3日。 行星实验室公司

根据卫星图像和官方媒体的报道，中国已经部署了军舰，并派出战斗机进行远程飞行，以占领其在有争议的南沙群岛链上的基地。

在此之前，美国计划于8月17日至31日在夏威夷附近进行大规模的多国军事演习，印度太平洋地区的各国将参加。一艘菲律宾海军舰艇已经驶向太平洋边缘（RIMPAC）演习。预期参加的其他国家包括越南，澳大利亚，文莱，新加坡，日本，马来西亚和印度尼西亚。

据中国官方媒体报道，在过去的一周内，中国南方战区司令部的先进战斗机飞抵了苏比礁的中国占领基地。

一家位于湖南省的中国国有广播公司在周末播出了一部纪录片，记录了参与该演习的人民解放军空军（PLAAF）旅。在视频中，据报道，四架Su-30MKK战斗机在前往苏比礁10小时的飞行中进行空中加油，该旅的指挥官指出，这打破了PLAAF以前的远程飞行记录，并证明了中国的发射能力到一瞬间，任何飞机都将到达Spratlys。

但是，美国空军附属航空大学下属的中国航空航天研究所（CASI）的专家指出，从该旅可能在湖南的基地长沙直接飞往苏比岛需要不到10个小时。

CASI主任布伦丹·穆尔瓦尼（Brendan Mulvaney）在看到视频报告并与同事商议后说：“假设视频显示的是实际事件，他们似乎是从长沙出发的。”

“ 10小时旅行的数学没有意义。从长沙到Spratlys大约1300英里，以典型的巡航速度仅需2到3个小时。在往返10小时后，这意味着它们以260 mph的速度飞行是不可能的，”他说。

专家们猜测，该练习不是测试飞机本身的耐用性或旅行的可行性，而可能是在艰苦的长途飞行条件下测试飞行员的身体素质。

穆尔瓦尼说：“ Su-30MKK具备在空中加油的能力，能够维持10小时的飞行。” “问题是飞行员是否有能力做到这一点。”

苏比礁是中国在南沙群岛上最大的四个人工岛之一，南中国海南半部的礁石群岛由越南，中国，台湾，菲律宾，马来西亚和文莱拥有。

这是中国船只驶过该地区的关键停靠点，卫星图像显示，周一早上有两艘可识别的中国海岸警卫队船只在那儿。

苏比礁（Subi Reef）距Thitu岛不到13海里，被菲律宾占领，最近被升级为沙滩坡道和简易机场。但是，与苏比相比，苏图的设施显得苍白无力。苏比拥有3,000米的跑道，雷达和通讯系统以及导弹电池掩体。

中国海岸警卫队和海上民兵船在菲律宾海岸很平常，其总统罗德里戈·杜特尔特上周承认，他无权强制菲律宾对中国在南中国海主张的领土的所有权。

“中国在要求它，我们在要求它。中国有武器，我们没有武器。因此，就这么简单。他们拥有该财产。”杜特尔特在他的年度《国情咨文》中说。

“所以，我们能做些什么？我们必须去战争。而且我负担不起。也许其他总统可以。但我不能，”他说。

中国还向“恶作剧礁”部署了两艘军舰，该礁位于菲律宾巴拉望岛约150英里之外。卫星图像显示，似乎是054A型护卫舰和056型护卫舰在周日乘飞机驶入美济礁（Mischief Reef）广阔的泻湖时在服役。还可以看到其他往返于美济礁（Mischief Reef）定居点供应物资的船只。

淘气礁是中国在南中国海最大的人工岛。从技术上讲，根据国际法，这被认为是“低潮高程”，但是经过大规模的填海努力，中国已经将其建成了一个强大的作战基地，拥有庞大的港口和简易机场。

美国上个月更新了其在南中国海的立场，驳斥了中国坚持拥有该地区海事权利的主张，并称中国对位于菲律宾大陆架上的特征的主张是“非法的”。特别是，美国国务院在7月13日表示，中国对菲律宾的海域内的美济礁（Mischief Reef）或第二托马斯·肖尔（Thomas Shoal）没有合法的领土或海上要求。

就菲律宾而言，菲律宾对中国的立场发出了一些矛盾的信号。杜特尔特已经寻求与北京建立更紧密的联系，但是最近菲律宾似乎已经追溯到其长期的美国同盟，并且否认了中国对几乎所有有争议水道的“历史权利”的主张。

菲律宾国防部长德尔芬·洛伦扎纳（Delfin Lorenzana）对美国7月13日的声明表示欢迎。菲律宾海军将参加RIMPAC。BRP的最现代化战舰Jose Rizal 于7月29日出发前往夏威夷。

Advanced fighter jets with China’s Southern Theater Command flew to the Chinese-occupied base at Subi Reef within the past week, according to Chinese state media.

A Hunan province-based Chinese state-owned broadcaster aired a documentary about the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) brigade involved in that drill over the weekend. In the video, four Su-30MKK fighter jets reportedly perform a mid-air refueling while on a 10-hour flight to Subi Reef, with the brigade’s commander noting this breaks the PLAAF’s previous record for long-range flights and demonstrates China’s ability to send any aircraft as far as the Spratlys at a moment’s notice.

However, experts at the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI) – part of the U.S. Air Force-affiliated Air University – pointed out it takes less than 10 hours to fly directly to Subi from Changsha, the brigade’s likely home base in Hunan.

“Assuming the video is showing the actual event, they appear to be departing and arriving from Changsha,” Brendan Mulvaney, director of CASI, said after seeing the video report and conferring with colleagues.

“The math on a 10-hour trip doesn’t make sense. It's about 1,300 miles from Changsha to the Spratlys, which should only take two to three hours at typical cruise speeds. At 10 hours round trip, that implies they’re flying at 260 mph which is unlikely,” he said.

Instead of testing the endurance of the aircraft itself or the feasibility of the trip, experts surmised the exercise was likely aimed at testing the physical fitness of the pilots under the conditions of a grueling long-distance flight.

“The Su-30MKK is physically capable of sustaining 10-hour flights with mid-air refueling,” Mulvaney said. “The question is whether a pilot is physically capable of doing so.”

Subi Reef is one of China’s four biggest artificial islands in the Spratlys, an archipelago of rocks and reefs in the southern half of the South China Sea that Vietnam, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei all hold claims.

It is a key stopping point for China’s ships on their way through the area, and satellite imagery showed two identifiable China Coast Guard ships there on Monday morning.

Subi Reef sits less than 13 nautical miles from Thitu Island, a feature occupied by the Philippines that was recently upgraded with a beaching ramp and improved airstrip. However, Thitu’s facilities pale in comparison to those at Subi, which has a 3,000-meter runway, radar and communications arrays and shelters for missile batteries.

China Coast Guard and maritime militia ships are commonplace off the coast of the Philippines, whose President Rodrigo Duterte last week conceded that he had no power to enforce the Philippines’ ownership of territories claimed by China in the South China Sea.

“China is claiming it, we are claiming it. China has the arms, we do not have it. So, it’s simple as that. They are in possession of the property,” Duterte said in his annual State of the Nation Address.

“So what can we do? We have to go to war. And I cannot afford it. Maybe some other president can. But I cannot,” he said.

China also has deployed two warships to Mischief Reef, which lies about 150 miles off the Philippine island of Palawan. Satellite imagery shows what appear to be a Type 054A frigate and a Type 056 corvette in service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) sailing in Mischief Reef’s expansive lagoon on Sunday. Other ships running supplies to and from Mischief Reef’s settlement are also visible.

Mischief Reef is China’s largest artificial island in the South China Sea. Technically, under international law it is considered a “low-tide elevation,” but after large-scale reclamation efforts China has built it into a formidable base of operations, with a massive harbor and airstrip.

The U.S. updated its position on the South China Sea last month, refuting China’s insistence on holding maritime rights to the area and calling China’s claims to features that sit on the Philippine continental shelf “illegal.” In particular, the U.S. State Department stated on July 13 that China holds no lawful territorial or maritime claim to Mischief Reef or Second Thomas Shoal, both of which lay within Philippine waters.

For its part, Philippines has sent some conflicting signals about its stance toward China. Duterte has sought closer ties with Beijing, but more recently the Philippines appears to have tracked back toward its long-standing U.S. alliance and repudiated China’s claims to “historic rights” over virtually all the disputed waterway.

Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana welcomed the U.S. statement of July 13. And the Philippine Navy will attend RIMPAC. Its most modern warship, the BRP Jose Rizal, departed for Hawaii July 29.

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You, my hearers, at this moment represent the whole nation. I wish to

ask you ten questions that you will answer for the German people

throughout the world, but especially for our enemies, who are listening

to us on the radio. (Only with difficulty can the minister be heard. The

crowd is at the peak of excitement. The individual questions are razor

sharp. Each individual feels as if he is being spoken to personally. With

full participation and enthusiasm, the crowd answers each question. The

Sportpalast rings with a single shout of agreement.)

谷歌同志译文：

你，我的听众，此刻代表整个国家。 我想问你十个问题，这些

问题将为世界各地的德国人民，尤其是对我们的敌人，他们正在

广播中听我们回答。 （部长很难听到。人群正处在兴奋的顶峰。

每个人的问题都非常敏锐。每个人都觉得自己在跟自己说话。在

充分的参与和热情下，人群回答了每个问题。 Sportpalast发出一声

同意就响了。）

The English maintain that the German people has lost faith in victory.

I ask you: Do you believe with the Führer and us in the final total victory of the German people?

I ask you: Are you resolved to follow the Führer through thick and thin to victory, and are you willing to accept the heaviest personal burdens?

Second, The English say that the German people are tired of fighting.

I ask you: Are you ready to follow the Führer as the phalanx of the homeland, standing behind the fighting army and to wage war with wild determination through all the turns of fate until victory is ours?

Third: The English maintain that the German people have no desire any longer to accept the government’s growing demands for war work.

I ask you: Are you and the German people willing to work, if the Führer orders, 10, 12 and if necessary 14 hours a day and to give everything for victory?

Fourth: The English maintain that the German people is resisting the government’s total war measures. It does not want total war, but capitulation! (Shouts: Never! Never! Never!)

I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Fifth: The English maintain that the German people have lost faith in the Führer.

I ask you: Is your confidence in the Führer greater, more faithful and more unshakable than ever before? Are you absolutely and completely ready to follow him wherever he goes and do all that is necessary to bring the war to a victorious end? (The crowd rises as one man. It displays unprecedented enthusiasm. Thousands of voices join in shouting: “Führer command, we follow!” A wave of shouts of Heil flows through the hall. As if by command, the flags and standards are raised as the highest expression of the sacred moment in which the crowd honors the Führer.)

Sixth, I ask you: Are you ready from now on to give your full strength to provide the Eastern Front with the men and munitions it needs to give Bolshevism the death blow?

Seventh, I ask you: Do you take a holy oath to the front that the homeland stands firm behind them, and that you will give them everything they need to win the victory?

Eighth, I ask you: Do you, especially you women, want the government to do all it can to encourage German women to put their full strength at work to support the war effort, and to release men for the front whenever possible, thereby helping the men at the front?

Ninth, I ask you: Do you approve, if necessary, the most radical measures against a small group of shirkers and black marketers who pretend there is peace in the middle of war and use the need of the nation for their own selfish purposes? Do you agree that those who harm the war effort should lose their heads?

Tenth and lastly, I ask you: Do you agree that above all in war, according to the National Socialist Party platform, the same rights and duties should apply to all, that the homeland should bear the heavy burdens of the war together, and that the burdens should be shared equally between high and low and rich and poor?

I have asked; you have given me your answers. You are part of the people, and your answers are those of the German people. You have told our enemies what they needed to hear so that they will have no illusions or false ideas.

英国人坚称德国人民对胜利失去了信心。

我问你：您是否相信德国人和我们对德国人民的最终全面胜利？

我问你：您是否决心坚定不移地追随Führer取得胜利，您愿意承担

最重的个人负担吗？

第二，英国人说德国人民厌倦了战斗。

我问你：你准备好跟随富勒作为家园的方阵，站在战斗部队的

身后，并在命运的所有转折中以坚定的决心发动战争，直到我们

胜利了吗？

第三：英国人坚持认为德国人民不再渴望接受政府对战争工作的

日益增长的要求。

我问你：如果Führer每天下令10、12，必要时14小时下令为胜利

而付出一切，您和德国人民愿意工作吗？

第四：英国人坚持认为德国人民正在抵抗政府的全面战争措施。

它不希望全面战争，而是投降！ （喊叫：从不！从不！从不！）

我问你：你要全面战争吗？如果有必要，您是否想要一场比我们

今天甚至无法想象的战争更加全面和激进的战争？

第五：英国人坚持认为德国人民对前南斯拉夫联盟失去了信心。

我问你：您对Führer的信心是否比以往任何时候都更大，更忠实，

更不可动摇？您是否完全准备好跟随他到处走，并为使战争取得

胜利而做一切必要的一切？ （人群像一个人一样上升。它表现出

空前的热情。成千上万的声音加入喊叫声：“ 元首命令，我们

跟随！”一股Heil的喊叫声流过大厅。仿佛是在命令之下，旗帜和

标准都升了起来。作为人群尊敬Führer的神圣时刻的最高表达。）

第六，我问你：从现在开始，你准备好充分发挥力量向东方阵线

提供需要给布尔什维克主义造成死亡打击的人员和弹药吗？

第七，我问你：你是否在前线发誓说祖国在他们身后站稳了，而

你会给他们赢得胜利所需的一切？

第八，我问你：你，特别是你的女性，是否希望政府尽一切努力

鼓励德国女性充分发挥自己的力量来支持战争，并尽可能释放

男性作为前线，从而帮助前面的人？

第九，我问你：如果有必要，您是否批准针对一小撮假装在战争

中实现和平并利用国家的需要实现其自私目的的推销员和黑人

商人的最激进措施？您是否同意那些损害战争努力的人应该失去

头脑？

第十，最后，我问你：你是否同意首先在战争中，根据国家社会党

的纲领，所有人都应享有相同的权利和义务，祖国应共同承担战争

的重担，负担应该在高低和富人与穷人之间平均分配吗？

我问过了;你给了我你的答案。您是人民的一部分，而您的答案是

德国人民的答案。您已经告诉我们的敌人他们需要听什么，这样

他们就不会有幻想或错误的想法。

We are all children of our people, forged together by this most critical hour of our national history. We promise you, we promise the front, we promise the Führer, that we will mold together the homeland into a force on which the Führer and his fighting soldiers can rely on absolutely and blindly. We pledge to do all in our life and work that is necessary for victory. We will fill our hearts with the political passion, with the ever-burning fire that blazed during the great struggles of the party and the state. Never during this war will we fall prey to the false and hypocritical objectivism that has brought the German nation so much misfortune over its history.

在我们国家历史上最关键的时刻，我们都是我们人民的儿女。

我们向您保证，我们向前线承诺，我们向元首承诺，我们将把

祖国塑造成一支力量，使元首和他的战斗士兵可以绝对盲目地

依靠它。 我们保证在我们的生活和工作中竭尽全力以取得胜利。

在党和国家的伟大斗争中，我们将充满政治激情和不断燃烧的

火焰，使我们满心。 在这场战争中，我们决不会沦为错误的，

虚伪的客观主义的牺牲品，这种错误和虚伪的客观主义给德国

民族带来了太多的不幸。

The great crises and upsets of national life show who the true men and women are. We have no right any longer to speak of the weaker sex, for both sexes are displaying the same determination and spiritual strength. The nation is ready for anything. The Führer has commanded, and we will follow him. In this hour of national reflection and contemplation, we believe firmly and unshakably in victory. We see it before us, we need only reach for it. We must resolve to subordinate everything to it. That is the duty of the hour. Let the slogan be:

Now, people rise up and let the storm break loose!

(The minister’s final words were lost in unending stormy applause)

国民生活的重大危机和不安表明真正的男人和女人是谁。 我们

再也无权谈论较弱的性别，因为这两种性别都表现出相同的决心

和精神力量。 国家为任何事情做好了准备。 元首指挥了，我们

将跟随他。 在这个民族反思和沉思的时刻，我们坚定而坚定地

相信胜利。 我们在我们面前看到它，我们只需要伸手去拿。

我们必须下决心使一切服从它。 那正是此时此刻我们的职责。

我们的口号是：

现在，人们站起来，就让暴风雨爆发吧！

（ 部长的最后一句话，完全被无休止的暴风雨般掌声淹没 ）