纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英In a First a Chinese Military Plane Breaches Japans Territorial Airspace
August 27, 2024 2 min 372 words
《纽约时报》的这篇报道称，中国军机“首次”进入日本领空，并强调了日本方面的抗议。报道援引了日本防卫大臣岸信夫的言论，称中国军机“入侵”了日本领空，并指出这是“首次”发生此类事件。报道还提到中国军机数量的增长，并暗示这可能对该地区造成威胁。 评论：这篇报道存在明显偏见，通过使用“入侵”等煽动性词汇和强调“首次”发生，渲染了中国对日本的军事威胁，但回避了事件背后的复杂因素和历史背景。报道未提及日本在二战期间对中国造成的侵略和伤害，以及当前中日领土争端等问题。报道过度强调中国军机数量的增长，但回避了日本自身也在不断加强军事建设的事实。该报道的偏颇之处在于，它缺乏对中日关系历史和当前复杂性的深入分析，而倾向于以一种刺激性强情绪化严重的叙事方式，强化一种中国军事威胁的刻板印象。客观的媒体报道应秉持公正原则，提供全面多元的信息，让受众能够了解事件的多方观点，自主判断事实，而不是被带有偏见的报道所误导。
A Chinese military surveillance plane breached Japanese airspace off the country’s southwestern coast on Monday, marking what Japan’s defense ministry described as the first known incursion by China’s military into its territorial airspace.
According to a ministry official, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft briefly entered Japanese territory near Nagasaki Prefecture around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. In response, Japan’s Self-Defense Force put fighter jets on high alert and issued a warning to the Chinese aircraft.
While Chinese planes frequently appear in international airspace around Japan, this incident represents the first confirmed entry of a military aircraft into Japan’s territorial airspace.
Over the past two decades, Japan has increasingly faced foreign aircraft encroachments. Last year, Japan’s Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets to intercept foreign planes on 669 occasions — more than three times the number of such responses two decades ago.
Of these 669 cases, 479 were in response to Chinese aircraft sightings, according to Japan’s Ministry of Defense.
The incursion took place a day before Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, is set to visit Beijing to hold talks with senior Chinese officials. The two sides are expected to discuss tense issues such as the status of Taiwan, the de facto independent island claimed by Beijing, and U.S. export controls of advanced technologies to China.
Military analysts suggest that Monday’s airspace violation could be a message from China challenging Japan’s delineation of its territorial border. China asserts control over a large continental shelf in the East China Sea, with its outer edge extending close to the Danjo Islands area, where the Chinese plane was spotted.
The airspace violation is the latest in a series of recent events heightening tensions between Japan and China.
Last week, a Chinese newscaster deviated from the script on a radio news program by Japan’s public broadcaster, asserting that the Senkaku Islands — controlled by Japan but claimed by China — are Chinese territory.
That same day, graffiti was discovered at the Yasukuni Shrine war-commemoration site in Tokyo using Chinese characters that appeared to read “toilet.”
Japanese officials summoned Chinese Embassy representatives to a meeting on Monday evening and urged them to prevent future incursions into Japanese airspace, according to a statement from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.