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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.

衛星圖像顯示了蘇比礁（Subi Reef），這是中國在南中國海的四個主要基地和人工島之一，2020年7月3日。 行星實驗室公司

根據衛星圖像和官方媒體的報道，中國已經部署了軍艦，並派出戰鬥機進行遠程飛行，以占領其在有爭議的南沙群島鏈上的基地。

在此之前，美國計劃於8月17日至31日在夏威夷附近進行大規模的多國軍事演習，印度太平洋地區的各國將參加。一艘菲律賓海軍艦艇已經駛向太平洋邊緣（RIMPAC）演習。預期參加的其他國家包括越南，澳大利亞，文萊，新加坡，日本，馬來西亞和印度尼西亞。

據中國官方媒體報道，在過去的一周內，中國南方戰區司令部的先進戰鬥機飛抵了蘇比礁的中國占領基地。

一家位於湖南省的中國國有廣播公司在周末播出了一部紀錄片，記錄了參與該演習的人民解放軍空軍（PLAAF）旅。在視頻中，據報道，四架Su-30MKK戰鬥機在前往蘇比礁10小時的飛行中進行空中加油，該旅的指揮官指出，這打破了PLAAF以前的遠程飛行記錄，並證明了中國的發射能力到一瞬間，任何飛機都將到達Spratlys。

但是，美國空軍附屬航空大學下屬的中國航空航天研究所（CASI）的專家指出，從該旅可能在湖南的基地長沙直接飛往蘇比島需要不到10個小時。

CASI主任布倫丹·穆爾瓦尼（Brendan Mulvaney）在看到視頻報告並與同事商議後說：“假設視頻顯示的是實際事件，他們似乎是從長沙出發的。”

“ 10小時旅行的數學沒有意義。從長沙到Spratlys大約1300英里，以典型的巡航速度僅需2到3個小時。在往返10小時後，這意味着它們以260 mph的速度飛行是不可能的，”他說。

專家們猜測，該練習不是測試飛機本身的耐用性或旅行的可行性，而可能是在艱苦的長途飛行條件下測試飛行員的身體素質。

穆爾瓦尼說：“ Su-30MKK具備在空中加油的能力，能夠維持10小時的飛行。” “問題是飛行員是否有能力做到這一點。”

蘇比礁是中國在南沙群島上最大的四個人工島之一，南中國海南半部的礁石群島由越南，中國，台灣，菲律賓，馬來西亞和文萊擁有。

這是中國船隻駛過該地區的關鍵停靠點，衛星圖像顯示，周一早上有兩艘可識別的中國海岸警衛隊船隻在那兒。

蘇比礁（Subi Reef）距Thitu島不到13海里，被菲律賓占領，最近被升級為沙灘坡道和簡易機場。但是，與蘇比相比，蘇圖的設施顯得蒼白無力。蘇比擁有3,000米的跑道，雷達和通訊系統以及導彈電池掩體。

中國海岸警衛隊和海上民兵船在菲律賓海岸很平常，其總統羅德里戈·杜特爾特上周承認，他無權強制菲律賓對中國在南中國海主張的領土的所有權。

“中國在要求它，我們在要求它。中國有武器，我們沒有武器。因此，就這麼簡單。他們擁有該財產。”杜特爾特在他的年度《國情咨文》中說。

“所以，我們能做些什麼？我們必須去戰爭。而且我負擔不起。也許其他總統可以。但我不能，”他說。

中國還向“惡作劇礁”部署了兩艘軍艦，該礁位於菲律賓巴拉望島約150英里之外。衛星圖像顯示，似乎是054A型護衛艦和056型護衛艦在周日乘飛機駛入美濟礁（Mischief Reef）廣闊的瀉湖時在服役。還可以看到其他往返於美濟礁（Mischief Reef）定居點供應物資的船隻。

淘氣礁是中國在南中國海最大的人工島。從技術上講，根據國際法，這被認為是“低潮高程”，但是經過大規模的填海努力，中國已經將其建成了一個強大的作戰基地，擁有龐大的港口和簡易機場。

美國上個月更新了其在南中國海的立場，駁斥了中國堅持擁有該地區海事權利的主張，並稱中國對位於菲律賓大陸架上的特徵的主張是“非法的”。特別是，美國國務院在7月13日表示，中國對菲律賓的海域內的美濟礁（Mischief Reef）或第二托馬斯·肖爾（Thomas Shoal）沒有合法的領土或海上要求。

就菲律賓而言，菲律賓對中國的立場發出了一些矛盾的信號。杜特爾特已經尋求與北京建立更緊密的聯繫，但是最近菲律賓似乎已經追溯到其長期的美國同盟，並且否認了中國對幾乎所有有爭議水道的“歷史權利”的主張。

菲律賓國防部長德爾芬·洛倫扎納（Delfin Lorenzana）對美國7月13日的聲明表示歡迎。菲律賓海軍將參加RIMPAC。BRP的最現代化戰艦Jose Rizal 於7月29日出發前往夏威夷。

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.)

谷歌同志譯文：

你，我的聽眾，此刻代表整個國家。 我想問你十個問題，這些

問題將為世界各地的德國人民，尤其是對我們的敵人，他們正在

廣播中聽我們回答。 （部長很難聽到。人群正處在興奮的頂峰。

每個人的問題都非常敏銳。每個人都覺得自己在跟自己說話。在

充分的參與和熱情下，人群回答了每個問題。 Sportpalast發出一聲

同意就響了。）

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.

英國人堅稱德國人民對勝利失去了信心。

我問你：您是否相信德國人和我們對德國人民的最終全面勝利？

我問你：您是否決心堅定不移地追隨Führer取得勝利，您願意承擔

最重的個人負擔嗎？

第二，英國人說德國人民厭倦了戰鬥。

我問你：你準備好跟隨富勒作為家園的方陣，站在戰鬥部隊的

身後，並在命運的所有轉折中以堅定的決心發動戰爭，直到我們

勝利了嗎？

第三：英國人堅持認為德國人民不再渴望接受政府對戰爭工作的

日益增長的要求。

我問你：如果Führer每天下令10、12，必要時14小時下令為勝利

而付出一切，您和德國人民願意工作嗎？

第四：英國人堅持認為德國人民正在抵抗政府的全面戰爭措施。

它不希望全面戰爭，而是投降！ （喊叫：從不！從不！從不！）

我問你：你要全面戰爭嗎？如果有必要，您是否想要一場比我們

今天甚至無法想象的戰爭更加全面和激進的戰爭？

第五：英國人堅持認為德國人民對前南斯拉夫聯盟失去了信心。

我問你：您對Führer的信心是否比以往任何時候都更大，更忠實，

更不可動搖？您是否完全準備好跟隨他到處走，並為使戰爭取得

勝利而做一切必要的一切？ （人群像一個人一樣上升。它表現出

空前的熱情。成千上萬的聲音加入喊叫聲：“ 元首命令，我們

跟隨！”一股Heil的喊叫聲流過大廳。仿佛是在命令之下，旗幟和

標準都升了起來。作為人群尊敬Führer的神聖時刻的最高表達。）

第六，我問你：從現在開始，你準備好充分發揮力量向東方陣線

提供需要給布爾什維克主義造成死亡打擊的人員和彈藥嗎？

第七，我問你：你是否在前線發誓說祖國在他們身後站穩了，而

你會給他們贏得勝利所需的一切？

第八，我問你：你，特別是你的女性，是否希望政府盡一切努力

鼓勵德國女性充分發揮自己的力量來支持戰爭，並儘可能釋放

男性作為前線，從而幫助前面的人？

第九，我問你：如果有必要，您是否批准針對一小撮假裝在戰爭

中實現和平並利用國家的需要實現其自私目的的推銷員和黑人

商人的最激進措施？您是否同意那些損害戰爭努力的人應該失去

頭腦？

第十，最後，我問你：你是否同意首先在戰爭中，根據國家社會黨

的綱領，所有人都應享有相同的權利和義務，祖國應共同承擔戰爭

的重擔，負擔應該在高低和富人與窮人之間平均分配嗎？

我問過了;你給了我你的答案。您是人民的一部分，而您的答案是

德國人民的答案。您已經告訴我們的敵人他們需要聽什麼，這樣

他們就不會有幻想或錯誤的想法。

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.

在我們國家歷史上最關鍵的時刻，我們都是我們人民的兒女。

我們向您保證，我們向前線承諾，我們向元首承諾，我們將把

祖國塑造成一支力量，使元首和他的戰鬥士兵可以絕對盲目地

依靠它。 我們保證在我們的生活和工作中竭盡全力以取得勝利。

在黨和國家的偉大鬥爭中，我們將充滿政治激情和不斷燃燒的

火焰，使我們滿心。 在這場戰爭中，我們決不會淪為錯誤的，

虛偽的客觀主義的犧牲品，這種錯誤和虛偽的客觀主義給德國

民族帶來了太多的不幸。

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)

國民生活的重大危機和不安表明真正的男人和女人是誰。 我們

再也無權談論較弱的性別，因為這兩種性別都表現出相同的決心

和精神力量。 國家為任何事情做好了準備。 元首指揮了，我們

將跟隨他。 在這個民族反思和沉思的時刻，我們堅定而堅定地

相信勝利。 我們在我們面前看到它，我們只需要伸手去拿。

我們必須下決心使一切服從它。 那正是此時此刻我們的職責。

我們的口號是：

現在，人們站起來，就讓暴風雨爆發吧！

（ 部長的最後一句話，完全被無休止的暴風雨般掌聲淹沒 ）