中国軍が東シナ海で実弾射撃訓練、空母も参加 台湾に圧力
[北京/台北 ２日 ロイター] - 中国軍は２日、東シナ海で長距離実弾射撃演習を実施し、港湾やエネルギー施設に対する精密攻撃の訓練を行ったと発表した。台湾周辺で行っている軍事演習をエスカレートさせた。
中国軍は１日、台湾周辺で陸海軍とロケット部隊の合同演習を開始したと発表。演習は「台湾独立に対する厳しい警告と強力な抑止力になる」として、台湾の頼清徳総統を「寄生虫」と呼んだ。中国海事局は１日夜、軍事演習のため、浙江省北部沖の海域を３日夜まで航行禁止区域に設定したと発表していた。航行禁止区域は台湾から５００キロ以上離れており、台湾の高官によると、台湾の「対応区域」外にある。 もっと見る
人民解放軍東部戦区司令部は２日、「海峡の雷─２０２５Ａ」演習の一環として、地上部隊が東シナ海の海域に向けて長距離実弾射撃演習を実施したと発表。「重要な港湾やエネルギー施設を模した標的に精密攻撃を行い、期待通りの効果を達成した」と表明した。空母「山東」が海軍と空軍の統合作戦と「多次元の封鎖と制御」に焦点を当てた演習に参加したと明らかにした。
実弾射撃訓練の映像として公開した動画では、ロケットが発射され陸上の標的に命中する様子や、台湾軍の基地や港湾がある台南、花蓮、台中などの上空で爆発が起こるアニメーションが映し出されていた。
台湾の安全保障当局高官はロイターに、２日午前に１０隻以上の中国軍艦船が台湾の対応域内にあり、中国沿岸警備隊も訓練に参加していると語った。
台湾国防部（国防省）は２日午前、過去２４時間に台湾周辺で中国軍機７６機と軍艦艇１５隻の活動を確認したと発表した。
台湾で対中政策を担う大陸委員会の邱垂正・主任委員は、中国訪問のリスクが高まっているとし、香港やマカオを含め中国への旅行が必要か慎重に判断すべきだと述べた。米国はこの演習を非難し、日本と欧州連合（ＥＵ）も懸念を表明している。
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Joe Cash
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Joe Cash reports on China's economic affairs, covering domestic fiscal and monetary policy, key economic indicators, trade relations, and China's growing engagement with developing countries. Before joining Reuters, he worked on UK and EU trade policy across the Asia-Pacific region. Joe studied Chinese at the University of Oxford and is a Mandarin speaker.
Yimou Lee
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Yimou Lee is a Senior Correspondent for Reuters covering everything from Taiwan, including sensitive Taiwan-China relations, China's military aggression and Taiwan's key role as a global semiconductor powerhouse. A three-time SOPA award winner, his reporting from Hong Kong, China, Myanmar and Taiwan over the past decade includes Myanmar's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, Hong Kong protests and Taiwan's battle against China's multifront campaigns to absorb the island.
Ben Blanchard
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Ben joined Reuters as a company news reporter in Shanghai in 2003 before moving to Beijing in 2005 to cover Chinese politics and diplomacy. In 2019 Ben was appointed the Taiwan bureau chief covering everything from elections and entertainment to semiconductors.
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