中國擴大了海上「執法巡邏」的範圍，進一步對台灣施加壓力.

China Raises Pressure on Taiwan With Expanded Coast Guard Patrols.

本文擷取自紐約時報.20260706.

.中國正開闢新戰線施壓台灣，派遣船隻前往台灣東側水域，強調政治立場：北京不僅主張對台灣本身擁有主權，也對周邊海域擁有主權。

中國海警宣布其艦艇將在台灣東部西太平洋水域執行「執法巡邏」。台灣是一個自治島嶼，人口約2300萬，北京聲稱其為中國領土。

西太平洋地區商業航運密集。若北京試圖封鎖或動用武力攻擊台灣，這將成為關鍵戰場。中國海警艦通常體積龐大且裝備精良，作為中國海軍力量的補充。在北京試圖控制有爭議的南海時，這些船隻扮演了關鍵角色，有時會聚集在水域、撞擊船隻或用強力水炮噴射船員來施加壓力。

中國海警表示，巡邏期間，海警船隻「將繼續加強中國管轄水域的執法巡邏，堅決維護國家領土主權及海洋權益」。

中國海警船隻過去曾在台灣東部水域活動，包括軍事演習。前美國空軍軍官、負責監督並批評中國對鄰國海洋壓力的海光組織負責人雷·鮑威爾表示，現在的差別在於這些巡邏既密集又有協調性，並伴隨著明確的政治意圖宣言。「透過這些行動，他們正進入藍色太平洋，」他說。「中國就像一條蟒蛇，不斷擠壓台灣，試圖加強對台灣交通路線的控制。」

北京在台灣東部水域高調部署這些船隻，是其在台灣施壓行動的進一步步驟，旨在挑戰台灣對這些水域的控制，並演練可能成為封鎖措施的步驟。

這次巡邏緊接著六月的類似行動，當時中國海警船、海上安全船和科研船在同一水域作業。美國、英國、法國和德國都發表聲明，批評中國海警在台灣東部水域的行動：「這再次顯示中國有意繼續施壓台灣，警告台灣未來將面臨日益孤立和斷裂的關係。」 ”台灣政府已針對中國近期的檢查做出相應準備，並駁回北京的主權主張。台灣海警至少派出兩艘船隻追蹤中國船隻，並表示將「採取一切必要措施，強力驅逐騷擾中國船隻」。負責與北京關係的台灣大陸事務委員會，中國在這些水域「沒有主權或相關權利」，且「所有中國政府船隻在此無執法權限」。

相關水域位於台灣領海之外。這些海域屬於日本、菲律賓和台灣在採礦和漁業等經濟活動上擁有重疊權利的水域。中國六月對台灣東部的檢查始於日本與菲律賓宣布就專屬經濟區及大陸架的競爭性主張展開正式談判。北京譴責這些談判，主張既然擁有台灣主權，也在爭端中擁有合法權利。

中國先派出海警船隻，接著是海運船隻。中國交通部稱這是「海上交通特別執法行動」。台灣官員表示，中國海警船隻透過無線電聯繫至少三艘商船，要求提供船員、目的地及其他細節。迄今為止，中國海警在台灣周邊的巡邏主要集中在台灣與大陸之間的海峽。自2024年起，中國開始在台灣控制的近中國海岸金門群島附近定期巡邏。

中國海軍也持續擴大在台灣周邊的巡邏與演習.台灣已通知經過該區的商船，不要理會中國的這些要求。然而，兩名因討論敏感資訊而要求匿名的台灣官員表示，其中一艘船上的一名中國船員配合，並向中國海警官員提供了資訊。該船合作消息最早由法新社報導，稱其為一艘懸掛新加坡旗幟的貨船。

China Raises Pressure on Taiwan With Expanded Coast Guard Patrols

China is opening a new front in its pressure campaign against Taiwan, sending ships to its east to drive home a political point: Beijing claims not only the island itself but also the seas around it

..The China Coast Guard announced on Saturday that its ships would conduct “law-enforcement patrols” in the Western Pacific waters east of Taiwan, a self-ruled island of 23 million people that Beijing claims as its territory.

.The Western Pacific is crowded with commercial traffic and would be a vital arena if Beijing ever tried to blockade or invade Taiwan. China’s coast guard ships are often hulking, well-armed vessels that complement the country’s naval forces. They have been vital to Beijing’s efforts to dominate the disputed South China Sea, sometimes by swarming waters, ramming vessels or blasting crews with powerful water cannons.

.During the patrols, the coast guard ships “will continue to strengthen law-enforcement patrols in waters under China’s jurisdiction and firmly safeguard China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests,” the China Coast Guard said on Saturday.

.Chinese coast guard ships have operated east of Taiwan before, including as part of military exercises. The difference now is that the patrols are intensive and coordinated, and accompanied by declarations of a political intent, said Ray Powell, a former U.S. Air Force officer who is the director of SeaLight, a group that monitors and is critical of Chinese maritime pressure activities against its neighbors.

.With these actions, they’re into the blue Pacific,” he said. “China just keeps squeezing Taiwan like a boa constrictor, trying to tighten its grip over lines of communication.”

.Beijing’s high-profile deployment of these ships east of Taiwan are a step forward in its efforts to pressure the island by challenging Taiwanese control of these seas and practicing steps that could be part of a blockade.

.The latest patrols followed similar ones in June, when Chinese coast guard, maritime safety and scientific exploration ships engaged in operations in the same waters. The United States, Britain, France and Germany issued statements last month criticizing the Coast Guard operations off east Taiwan.

.“It’s another indication that China intends to continue to put the squeeze on Taiwan, warning that in the future it’s going to find itself increasingly isolated and cut off,” Mr. Powell said on Sunday.Taiwan’s government responded to the latest Chinese patrols with deployments of its own, and rejected Beijing’s claims of sovereignty. The Taiwan Coast Guard sent at least two ships to track the Chinese vessels and said it would “take all necessary measures to forcefully expel Chinese vessels that engage in harassment in our national waters.”

.China “has no jurisdiction or related rights” over these waters, and “none of its government vessels have the authority to enforce laws there,” the Mainland Affairs Council, which oversees relations with Beijing,The seas in question are outside of Taiwan’s territorial waters. They are within waters where Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan assert overlapping rights to economic activities such as mining and fishing.

The Chinese patrols east of Taiwan in June began after Japan and the Philippines announced that they were in formal negotiations over their competing claims to exclusive economic zones and continental shelves. Beijing condemned the talks, arguing that because it has sovereignty over Taiwan, it also has a legal stake in that dispute.

China first sent out coast guard ships, which were then joined by maritime safety ships in what the country’s Ministry of Transport called a “maritime traffic law enforcement operation.”

Taiwanese officials have said that the Chinese coast guard ships radioed at least three commercial ships, demanding information about the ships’ crews, destinations and other details.

Taiwan has told commercial ships passing through the area to ignore such demands from China. But a Chinese crew member on one ship complied, supplying information to a Chinese coast guard officer, said two Taiwanese officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information. The compliance by the ship was first reported by Agence France-Presse, which said it was a Singapore-flagged cargo carrier.

Up to now, Chinese coast guard patrols around Taiwan have mostly been in the strait between the island and the mainland. Since 2024, China has regularly patrolled near Kinmen, a set of islands near the Chinese coast that is controlled by Taiwan.

China’s navy has also continued expanding patrols and exercises around Taiwan. In July, Chinese and Russian navies will hold a joint exercise off Qingdao, a city on China’s northeast coast, and forces from both sides would then “conduct a joint maritime patrol” in the Pacific Ocean, China’s Ministry of National Defense