反華勢力

反華勢力



諾貝爾和平獎頒獎典禮完成，但餘波未了！


週六的明報刊出翻譯了的一篇【華盛頓郵報】的 文章

Don't let China be a Middle Kingdom bully: By Richard Cohen
【Washington Post】One of the more frightening aspects of China's persecution of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, is that the government never even bothered to frame him.

That's the standard method used by totalitarian regimes to justify the unjustifiable, but China feels no need to placate the West or even caricature its system of justice, so it swiftly put his wife under house arrest, vilified the Norwegian Nobel Committee and censored any criticism of its own actions - a display of ferocious petulance reminiscent of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany or, in fairy tales, the thwarted Rumpelstiltskin stomping his foot into the ground.

China's stomping was sufficient to intimidate the 16 other countries that boycotted the Nobel awards ceremony last week, some of them because persecution of dissidents is a native craft (Venezuela, Russia, Cuba) and some merely because China is a valued trading partner (Sri Lanka).

Whatever the case, even such countries as Russia would have gone through the trouble of framing a dissident - as it did with the remarkably courageous Mikhail Khodorkovsky - since it pretends to be a democracy. This pathetic attempt at make-believe justice is the hallmark of an insecure regime and is often punctuated with coerced confessions and denunciations from former associates and, in Stalin's glory days, spouses.

China has no such compunctions. It is recasting itself as a latter-day Middle Kingdom, not so much an epoch as a mind-set - the ethnocentric conviction that it occupies the middle of the earth and is surrounded by barbarians. The barbarians in this case include the United States, a beggar nation with a decrepit educational system, and Japan and South Korea as well.

China had taken to treating these two Asian nations with unconcealed contempt. The Post's John Pomfret recently described how China's chief diplomat, State Councilor Dai Bingguo, flew to South Korea without invitation or warning, demanded to land at an airfield normally reserved for heads of state and insisted on seeing the president immediately. To his credit, President Lee Myung-bak made Dai cool his heels for a day.

The Chinese, I suppose, are entitled to a certain amount of chest-thumping. They have come a long way. For many years, China was subservient to the West, with various countries looting it for trade or resources and even encouraging an addiction to opium there.

Now China is the world's second-largest economy and, with 1.3 billion people, well on its way to No. 1. It is a major U.S. creditor, a cherished if not-altogether-fair trading partner and now a major military power. Its former pose of modesty in international affairs has been chucked. China has become a bit of a bully.

Ascendant nationalism is inherently unstable, and the United States has to proceed cautiously and firmly when dealing with China. Beijing's belligerence has produced both the beginning of an anti-China coalition in the Far East and a little counter-gunboat diplomacy on the part of the United States. With its chip-on-the-shoulder approach, China has gone too far. As for the United States, it has not gone far enough.

Of course, China is just too big and powerful to push around. Everything about it is massive. It holds nearly $3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and it, not the United States, is Saudi Arabia's biggest oil customer. Nevertheless, Washington needs to contest China's insistence that what it does in its own country is its own business.

Its treatment of dissidents is appalling - no more indigenously Chinese than the brutal beating of journalists is inherently Russian. The United States needs to respect China. It does not need to respect its repressive methods.

Oddly enough, the insistent Mia Farrow showed the way. Before the Beijing Olympics - the "Genocide Olympics," she called it - she campaigned against China's protective relationship with the brutal regime in Sudan. China soon leaned on Sudan to at least moderate its behavior, suggesting that even for a little while such tactics can be effective. Today's moral reproval is yesterday's gunboat.

Congress, which once kept an eagle eye on China's human rights record, has recently become so obsessed with China's economic importance that it no longer says much about the way Beijing treats political and religious dissidents.

But China cannot be some Middle Kingdom redux, making its own rules on everything from unilaterally claiming a hunk of the ocean to imprisoning the most unassertive of political protesters. China's money buys many things, but not - for the sake of its own dissidents and our national pride - America's silence.


明報的譯文：美國《華盛頓郵報》12月13日評論版文章
不要讓中國做霸王 作者：Richard Cohen

【明報專訊】誣衊獲諾貝爾獎的不同政見人士，是極權政府的慣常做法，但中國連這種伎倆也不做，反映了整件事更可怕的一面。中國覺得根本沒有必要討好西方，也沒有必要攻擊西方的公義體制，直接把劉霞軟禁、詆毀諾貝爾和平獎委員會、過濾所有批評中國的言論，與斯大林的蘇聯和納粹德國不遑多讓。

中國的隆隆發炮，嚇窒了16國的政府缺席和平獎頒獎禮，部分杯葛的國家本身也迫害不同政見人士，部分則擔心貿易利益受損。

中國沒有絲毫悔疚，中國希望重振古代大國的聲威，中國是世界的中心，周邊國家全是化外之境、蠻夷之邦。這些蠻夷包括美國、日本和韓國，中國不會隱藏對日韓的蔑視，國務委員戴秉國訪問韓國，竟要求降落在國家元首的專用機場及立即與總統李明博會面。

中國銀彈買不到美國的沉默
中國過去曾被西方欺壓和掠奪，但今天中國已是全世界第二大經濟體，又是美國的最大債權國及軍事大國，中國不需要韜光養晦，可以試試橫行霸道了。中國的挑釁態度，令東亞醞釀反中國聯盟，美國也要回應中國的炮艦外交行徑。

中國的力量太大，但華府也需要為中國如何對待不同政見人士的駭人手段發聲，美國要尊重中國，但不需要尊重中國鎮壓異己的手段。影星米亞花露批評北京奧運是「種族屠殺奧運」，令北京被迫向關係友好的蘇丹施壓，證明道德價值的批評有效。

中國不能自以為是天朝大國，將大片海域劃為所屬領海，囚禁手無寸鐵的不同政見人士。中國的銀彈可以買很多東西，但買不到美國的沉默。


西方的反華勢力，一向死心不息，趁著諾貝爾和平獎餘波，繼續發動輿論攻擊中國。


個人雖然認為今次中國對諾貝爾獎反應過激，其實祗要淡淡地，不屑一顧地，懶得睬諾貝爾委員會，低調處理，簡單發表聲明，經已足夠。


如今北京採取高調方法，狼狼地去批判諾貝爾和平獎委員會，反而造成口實，給西方反華力量，有根有據去批評北京。

今次北京發動對諾貝爾和平獎的的批評，不知道是由誰拍板定調，習近平初初登位，貴為胡錦濤的接班人，在中共的傳統，新人上場，寧左勿右，避免給極左派攻擊為對西方軟弱。


極左派在中共尚餘幾多勢力呢？不過暫時潛伏的他們從未心息，時時刻刻，都想反擊改革派，真的是中國政治上的隱憂！



後記：Richard Cohen 何許人也？（擇要轉載）
【維基百科】Cohen is a graduate of Far Rockaway High School and attended Hunter College, New York University, and Columbia University. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in the "Commentary" category. Cohen splits his time between Washington, D.C. and New York City 。。。。。。。。

In 1998, Cohen was involved in a dispute with editorial aide Devon Spurgeon that was ultimately mediated by Washington Post management. Cohen reportedly asked Ms. Sturgeon questions about "casual sex", told her to "stand up and turn around", and gave her the "silent treatment" for three weeks. Cohen contended that "It was a personality dispute at an office, but it had nothing to do with sexual harassment as the term applies today." Post management concluded that Ms. Spurgeon had been subjected to a "hostile working environment" but not to "sexual harassment" and that Cohen was guilty of "inappropriate behavior

In 2009, Cohen was recognized as the "World's Worst Writer" by Wonkette. Salon.com named him the #1 "Hack" in 2010. Alex Pareene wrote for Salon, "He's not so much an old liberal who grew conservative as he is a simplistic old hack who believes his common prejudices to be politically incorrect truths and his Beltway conventional wisdom to be bracing political insight.


Richard Cohen 雖然四次提名新聞界的“普立茲獎“ Pulitzer Prize 都無功而還。看似靠的是嘩眾取寵，但卻引來不少非議，也可稱為臭名遠播！




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Don't let China be a Middle Kingdom bully washingtonpost.com
不要讓中國做霸王 雅虎新聞網
Richard Cohen 維基百科


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