The South China Sea 南中国海

南中国海   Nán zhōngguó hǎi

I was born in Singapore. I spent my first thirty-nine years living and working there. Yet, I did not know the importance of the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait to the western countries, and to Singapore’s shipping industry until lately in my early eighties.

我出生在新加坡。我在那里度过了我最初的三十九年生活和工作。然而，直到最近我八十岁生日，我才知道南海和马六甲海峡对西方国家和新加坡航运业的重要性。
Wǒ chūshēng zài xīnjiāpō. Wǒ zài nàlǐ dùguòle wǒ zuìchū de sānshíjiǔ nián shēnghuó hé gōngzuò. Rán'ér, zhídào zuìjìn wǒ bāshí suì shēngrì, wǒ cái zhīdào nán huǎ hé mǎliùjiǎ hǎixiá duì xīfāng guójiā hé xīnjiāpō hángyùn yè de zhòngyào xìng.

据信，这片海床下蕴藏着巨大的石油和天然气储量。它也是一个健康的渔场，对食物至关重要。与南海水域接壤的国家包括文莱、柬埔寨、中国、印度尼西亚、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡、台湾、泰国和越南。而且，南海约占全球海上贸易的三分之一。

It is believed that huge oil and natural gas reserves are lying beneath the seabed of this sea. It is also a healthy fishing ground that is crucial for food. Countries that border the waters of South China Sea include Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. And, the South China Sea accounts for about a third of the global maritime trade. 

Jù xìn, zhè piàn hǎi chuángxià yùncángzhe jùdà de shíyóu hé tiānránqì chúliàng. Tā yěshì yīgè jiànkāng de yúchǎng, duì shíwù zhì guān zhòngyào. Yǔ nánhǎi shuǐyù jiērǎng de guójiā bāokuò wén lái, jiǎnpǔzhài, zhōngguó, yìndùníxīyà, mǎláixīyà, fēilǜbīn, xīnjiāpō, táiwān, tàiguó hé yuènán. Érqiě, nánhǎi yuē zhàn quánqiú hǎishàng màoyì de sān fēn zhī yī.

A lot of attention has been focused by the western press recently on China’s activities in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Google “Spratly Islands to read about the dispute of the Spratly Islands.

西方媒体最近对中国在南中国海南沙群岛的活动进行了大量关注。谷歌“南沙群岛”阅读有关南沙群岛争端的信息。
Xīfāng méitǐ zuìjìn duì zhōngguó zài nán zhōngguó hǎinánshā qúndǎo de huódòng jìnxíngle dàliàng guānzhù. Gǔgē “nánshā qúndǎo” yuèdú yǒuguān nán shā qúndǎo zhēngduān dì xìnxī.

There is a video on youtube dated December 25th 2016 where Sarah Flounders, an American author belonging to the Workers World’s Party presented a commentary on the topic of “U S Threats in the South China Sea. View the entire presentation by clicking the link here: https://youtu.be/WfXIjri8zbY

Youtube 上有一段视频，日期为 2016 年 12 月 25 日，世界工人党的美国作家莎拉·弗伦德斯 (Sarah Flounders) 发表了一篇关于“美国在南中国海的威胁”的评论。单击此处的链接查看整个演示文稿：https ://youtu.be/WfXIjri8zbY https://youtu.be/WfXIjri8zbY
Youtube shàng yǒu yīduàn shìpín, rìqí wèi 2016 nián 12 yuè 25 rì, shìjiè gōngrén dǎng dì měiguó zuòjiā shā lā·fú lún dé sī (Sarah Flounders) fābiǎole yī piān guānyú “měiguó zài nán zhōngguó hǎi de wēixié” de pínglùn. Dān jī cǐ chǔ de liànjiē chákàn zhěnggè yǎnshì wéngǎo:Https://Youtu.Be/WfXIjri8zbY https://youtu.be/WfXIjri8zbY

Let us read of the excerpts below:

” Does the People’s Republic of China have a right to defend its sovereignty in the waters surrounding China?  What are US aircraft carriers, destroyers, nuclear submarines, bombers and underwater drones doing in the South China Sea? China does not have any such force in the Gulf of Mexico which is about the same size, bordered by about the same number of countries.  Yet, China is depicted as an aggressor in the South China Sea. “

“Now, increasingly, there are hundreds of news stories that the big problem facing the US is China.   China is the aggressor.  China is a superpower that is throwing its weight around.  China is militarising the South China Sea and what the US is doing is just defending the people of the region especially the interests of the smaller nations who also border the South China Sea.  For us here we are pretty clear on one point — that there is nowhere in the world that the US military or the police or the intelligence agencies are defending the interests of working and oppressed people or smaller nations.”

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The Chinese developed writing and the manufacturing of paper that was not copy-righted.

中国人发展了没有版权的书写和纸张制造。
Zhōngguó rén fà zhǎn le méiyǒu bǎnquán de shūxiě hé zhǐzhāng zhìzào.

The Chinese invented big shipping vessels and compasses and again such inventions were not copy-righted.

中国人发明了大船和指南针，而且这些发明没有版权。Zhōngguó rén fà míng liǎo dàchuán hé zhǐnánzhēn, érqiě zhèxiē fāmíng méiyǒu bǎnquán.

让我们阅读以下摘录：
Ràng wǒmen yuèdú yǐxià zhāilù:

 “中华人民共和国是否有权在中国周边海域捍卫自己的主权？美国的航母、驱逐舰、核潜艇、轰炸机和水下无人机在南海做什么？中国在南海没有任何这样的力量。墨西哥湾面积差不多，周边国家数量也差不多。然而，中国却被描绘成南海的侵略者。”   
“Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó shìfǒu yǒu quán zài zhōngguó zhōubiān hǎiyù hànwèi zìjǐ de zhǔquán? Měiguó de hángmǔ, qūzhújiàn, héqiántǐng, hōngzhàjī hé shuǐ xià wú rén jī zài nánhǎi zuò shénme? Zhōngguó zài nánhǎi méiyǒu rènhé zhèyàng de lìliàng. Mòxīgē wān miànjī chàbùduō, zhōubiān guójiā shùliàng yě chàbùduō. Rán'ér, zhōngguó què bèi miáohuì chéng nánhǎi de qīnlüè zhě.”

“现在，越来越多的新闻报道说美国面临的大问题是中国。中国是侵略者。中国是一个正在四处施压的超级大国。中国正在将南海军事化，而美国正在做什么只是在捍卫该地区的人民，尤其是与南中国海接壤的小国的利益。对我们这里来说，我们非常清楚一点 - 世界上没有任何地方可以让美国军队或警察或情报机构正在捍卫劳动人民和受压迫人民或小国的利益。”

“Xiànzài, yuè lái yuè duō de xīnwén bàodào shuō měiguó miànlín de dà wèntí shì zhōngguó. Zhōngguó shì qīnlüè zhě. Zhōngguó shì yīgè zhèngzài sìchù shī yā de chāojí dàguó. Zhōngguó zhèngzài jiāng nánhǎi jūnshì huà, ér měiguó zhèngzài zuò shénme zhǐshì zài hànwèi gāi dìqū de rénmín, yóuqí shì yǔ nán zhōngguó hǎi jiērǎng de xiǎoguó de lìyì. Duì wǒmen zhèlǐ lái shuō, wǒmen fēicháng qīngchǔ yīdiǎn - shìjiè shàng méiyǒu rènhé dìfāng kěyǐ ràng měiguó jūnduì huò jǐngchá huò qíngbào jīgòu zhèngzài hànwèi láodòng rénmín hé shòu yāpò rénmín huò xiǎoguó de lìyì.”

“Now, demonisation, especially of black and brown people here in the US, constant demonisation of immigrants and of Muslims, creates a racist atmosphere that runs so deep.”

“Now there are a few terms I want to use tonight.  It is really useful to explain, one of them, especially if we are going to talk about China, is free trade.  Now free trade has nothing to do with human freedom.  It was originally a term based on the freedom of the capitalists to carry out the African slave trade.  It was the capitalist claiming the right to property to the buying and selling of human beings but this was a sacred rite and the capitalists described the transatlantic slave trade as the bedrock of global free trade.  It had all the protection of law in every capitalist country.  It was the cornerstone of free enterprise. ” 

“Now free trade meant something else in China.  In the early 1800s free trade meant the right of the British capitalist to freely trade opium in China without any restriction from the Chinese government.  It forced the Chinese market they said was going to be forced open and the Chinese government was determined to stop the opium trade.  So imposing free trade of opium on China meant war with China.   It meant occupation and conquest and pillage.  It meant British merchants who wanted the silk and the tea and the porcelain and the spices for markets in the West, but they refused to pay in silver, they demanded the right to pay in opium and their gunboats smashed the Chinese Navy.”

Click to the link for the entire 44 minutes of what Sarah Flounders said about the relationship between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China. https://youtu.be/WfXIjri8zbY

When I was at schools in Singapore, my mind was brainwashed by the British colonisers that communism was bad and that we need to fight the communists - especially those who believed in the Communist system of Mainland China. In Singapore, there still is the Prevention of Public Security Ordinance in place. The chief aim of that piece of legislation is for the Government of the day to arrest anyone of her citizens whom the Government believes that that person is a threat to the peace of the country. It was initially enacted to arrest suspected communist party sympathisers without trial. Now that I have lived through eighty years, I know that any government, communist or otherwise, who looks after the well beings of her citizens, is a good government, regardless of the political belief that government belongs.

“现在自由贸易在中国意味着别的东西。在 1800 年代初期，自由贸易意味着英国资本家有权在中国自由贸易鸦片，不受中国政府的任何限制。它迫使他们所说的将被迫开放的中国市场中国政府决心停止鸦片贸易。所以对中国实行鸦片自由贸易意味着与中国开战。这意味着占领、征服和掠夺。这意味着英国商人想要丝绸、茶叶、瓷器和香料西方市场，但他们拒绝用白银支付，他们要求用鸦片支付的权利，他们的炮艇摧毁了中国海军。”

“Xiànzài zìyóu màoyì zài zhōngguó yìwèizhe bié de dōngxī. Zài 1800 niándài chūqí, zìyóu màoyì yìwèizhe yīngguó zīběnjiā yǒu quán zài zhōngguó zìyóu màoyì yāpiàn, bù shòu zhōngguó zhèngfǔ de rènhé xiànzhì. Tā pòshǐ tāmen suǒ shuō de jiāng bèi pò kāifàng de zhōngguó shìchǎng zhōngguó zhèngfǔ juéxīn tíngzhǐ yāpiàn màoyì. Suǒyǐ duì zhōngguó shíxíng yāpiàn zìyóu màoyì yìwèizhe yǔ zhōngguó kāizhàn. Zhè yìwèizhe zhànlǐng, zhēngfú hé lüèduó. Zhè yìwèizhe yīngguó shāngrén xiǎng yào sīchóu, cháyè, cíqì hé xiāngliào xīfāng shìchǎng, dàn tāmen jùjué yòng báiyín zhīfù, tāmen yāoqiú yòng yāpiàn zhīfù de quánlì, tāmen de pàotǐng cuīhuǐle zhōngguó hǎijūn.”

Now let us watch another video on the same topic - China. https://youtu.be/qw-FLc7Z01Q. How China Became So Powerful.