中國兩艘漁船被俄羅斯扣留
Russia’s Coast Guard fired on a Chinese fishing trawler during a three-hour chase on Monday, detaining its crew as well as that of another fishing boat seized at the weekend for poaching fish in Russian waters.
俄羅斯海岸警衛隊週一在三小時追捕過程中向一艘中國拖網漁船開火，最後拘留了這艘漁船和另一艘漁船的船員。那艘漁船因在俄羅斯海域偷捕於上週末被扣押。One Chinese fisherman fell overboard during the seizure of one of the vessels and is missing, according to Russia’s Coast Guard. The other 36 sailors are being detained in Russia.
俄羅斯海岸警衛隊表示，在扣押其中一艘漁船時，一名中國漁民落海，下落不明。其餘36名船員被拘留在俄羅斯。In a sign that Beijing is taking the incident seriously, conciliatory remarks by a Chinese consular official in the Russian border town of Khabarovsk were swiftly disavowed by Beijing, according to Chinese wire services. He had said that China “would not seek to politicise the incident.”
中國的新聞通訊社稱，駐俄羅斯邊境城鎮哈巴羅夫斯克的一名中國領事官員曾發表和解性言論，但很快被中國政府撇清關係，這表明中國政府嚴肅對待該事件。據稱這名官員曾表示，中國“不會尋求政治化這起事件”。
The Chinese foreign ministry said the official who made the comment had been sent home in January and could not have made the remark, according to Interfax.
俄羅斯國際文傳電訊社(Interfax)表示，中國外交部稱，發表評論的官員早已於1月份被召回國內，不可能發表這種言論。During Monday’s incident one of the Chinese vessels tried to ram the Russian ship according to a Russian Coast Guard spokesman quoted on Russian news agency Interfax.
國際文傳電訊社援引俄羅斯海岸警衛隊發言人的話稱，在週一的事件中，其中的一艘中國漁船曾試圖撞擊俄羅斯巡邏船。The Russian ship fired warning shots and then opened fire on the Chinese vessel, though no one was killed or injured from the shelling. The Russian spokesman said the Chinese sailor fell overboard during the collision between the two ships.
俄方巡邏船開炮警告，隨後對準中國漁船開火，不過在炮擊時無人傷亡。這名俄羅斯發言人表示，那名落海的中國船員是在兩船相撞時落海的。He also said that the Chinese sailors at first “resisted” Russian boarding attempts but surrendered after being fired upon.
他還表示，中國船員起初“抵制”俄方的登船企圖，但遭炮擊後屈服。The two ships were from the city of Weihai in China’s eastern Shandong province, Chinese agency Xinhua said.
中國的新華社表示，這兩艘船來自中國東部山東省的威海市。It was not the first time the Russian Coast Guard had fired on Chinese trawlers and detained them for poaching fish in Russian waters. Earlier incidents put a strain on relations between the two countries, who fought a brief border war in 1969.
這不是俄羅斯海岸警衛隊首次向在俄羅斯海域捕撈的中國漁船開火併拘捕船員。此前的同類事件導致兩國關係緊張，1969年兩國曾發生短暫邊境戰爭。Relations between Beijing and Moscow have steadily warmed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 but the two countries maintain an uneasy partnership and Russia fears Chinese attempts to assert regional hegemony.
自1991年蘇聯倒臺以來，中俄關系平穩升溫，但兩國的夥伴關係時好時壞，俄羅斯擔心中國謀求地區霸權。
