香山論壇激辯南海話題 中國主權立場明確
China gathered defence officials and experts from across the Asia-Pacific in Beijing Friday for a three-day security forum intended to boost the Asian giant's influence on the global stage. The Xiangshan, or Fragrant Hills, conference comes as tensions rise between Washington and Beijing, the region's two largest economic and military powers, over the latter's construction of artificial islands in disputed South China Sea waters.
週五在北京，中國召集亞太地區國防官員和專家，開展了爲期三天的安全論壇，其目的是增加亞洲大國中國在世界舞臺的影響力。中美是亞太地區兩大經濟軍事強國，但就中國在南海有爭議的海域建造人工島事件導致兩國關係緊張，這也是促成本次香山會議的主要原因。Five other countries in the region have rival claims to parts of the South China Sea -- four of them members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- and the disputes have sometimes spilled over into confrontations as vessels from the competing countries spar over fishing grounds and resource extraction.
其他五個國家也在這一地區對南海主權問題持有爭議—其中四國是東南亞國家聯盟成員—這些競爭國之間也會因各國船隻在漁場和資源開採問題上產生爭端，有時甚至激化成軍事對抗。
Beijing offered to hold joint military exercises with ASEAN members next year in the South China Sea, the defence ministry said on its official Sina Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter. The conference, the sixth of its kind, will be attended by 60 official delegations and 130 scholars, according to organisers.
中國國防部在新浪微博上（中國版twitter）發佈消息，稱北京提議明年在南海地區與東南亞國家聯盟舉行聯合軍事演習。類似會議已舉辦過五場，此次是第六次會議，根據組織者表示，60個官方代表團和130名學者將出席本次活動。
It is part of China's broader effort to increase its international influence, which has also seen the creation of the multi-billion-dollar Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The event will give Beijing "a louder voice", according to a comment piece in the state-run China Daily newspaper, which added that it will help correct characterisations of China as "aggressive".
這也是中國爲擴大國際影響力而作出廣泛努力的部分體現，這種努力也表現在價值幾十億美元亞洲基礎設施投資銀行的成立。根據中國國營的中國日報一評論文章表示，此次活動將會給予中國“更響亮的聲音”，並補充道這將會修正中國侵略性一說法。The Xiangshan meeting followed an informal gathering of defence ministers from the 10-member ASEAN bloc in the Chinese capital on Friday. The group includes Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, all of which have rival South China Sea claims, as does non-ASEAN member Taiwan.
本週五香山會議後，東盟集團10國國防部長將在北京舉辦一次非正式聚會。參加會議的包括文萊、馬來西亞、菲律賓、越南，這些國家都與中國在南海領域有領土爭端，還有非東盟成員臺灣。The gathering's headline speaker is Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia, which has close relations with China. It is not a claimant in the South China Sea and has backed Beijing's stance that ASEAN should stay out of the dispute.
聚會的標題議長是柬埔寨總理洪森，柬埔寨與中國關係密切，它與中國在南海沒有領土爭端，並支持中國的立場，認爲東盟國家應遠離南海爭端。
