英國重申向亞洲“傾斜”，新軍艦使用新加坡停泊

Recently Yahoo News on-line reported the following:

Britain reaffirms Asia 'tilt' as new warship makes Singapore stop

Mon., October 11, 2021, 5:25 a.m.

By Chen Lin

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Britain's new aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth made a stop in Singapore on Monday, part of a move to reassert itself globally and boost its military presence in Asia amid rising competition among major powers.

The Queen Elizabeth led a British carrier strike group in exercises with Singapore's military at the weekend, including naval maneuvers and simulated combat training with F-35B stealth fighters and F-16 jets.

"Our recent integrated review highlighted the importance of the Indo Pacific and the UK's intent to tilt here and have an increased footprint, and much more persistent presence," strike group commander, Commodore Steve Moorhouse, told Reuters aboard the new 65,000-tonne vessel.

"What better way to just show that off in the first instance, with Queen Elizabeth deploying here for her first operational deployment."

Singapore is one of more than 40 countries the strike group will interact with through visits or exercises during its global deployment, according to a British government statement.

Britain, like China, now has two aircraft carriers, compared to the United States' 11. The $4 billion Queen Elizabeth is the largest warship built by the British military and is roughly the length of three soccer fields at 274 meters (900 feet).

In recent years, China has controversially deployed coastguard ships all over the South China Sea and built manmade islands with missile systems, to assert vast territorial claims that an international arbitral ruling has declared invalid.

(Reporting by Chen Lin; Editing by Martin Petty)

Translation

新加坡（路透社）——英國的新航空母艦伊麗莎白女王號周一在新加坡停靠，這是在主要大國之間日益激烈的競爭中, 它重新確立自己的全球地位並加強其在亞洲的軍事存在的舉措的一部分。

在週末，伊麗莎白女王號率領一個英國航母打擊群與新加坡軍方進行了演習，包括海軍演習和使用 F-35B 隱形戰鬥機和 F-16 噴氣式飛機進行模擬戰鬥訓練。

戰鬥群指揮官Steve Moorhous準將在這一艘新的 65,000 噸船隻上告訴路透社說,“我們最近的綜合評估強調了印度太平洋地區的重要性，以及英國打算在這裡傾斜並擴大足跡, 和更持久出現的意圖”。

“有什麼更好的方式來展示這一點 - 去用伊麗莎白女王號在這裡部署她的第一次作戰部署。”

根據英國政府的一份聲明，新加坡是該打擊小組在其全球部署期間, 通是過訪問或演習去互動的 40 多個國家之一。

與中國一樣，英國現在擁有兩艘航空母艦，而美國有 11 艘。價值 40 億美元的伊麗莎白女王號是英國軍方建造的最大的軍艦，大約有三個足球場的長度，即274 米（900 英尺）。

近年來，中國有爭議地在整個南海部署海警船，並建造裝備有導彈系統的人造島嶼，以維持國際仲裁已裁決無效它的大面積的領土主張。

              So, UK is increasing its presence in Asia. Singapore is at a comfortable distance from China, it can say and do things that may annoy China. I think that among the Asia countries, Vietnam feels the most pressure from mainland China.