Hillary第一次出访演讲给人直觉，以后4年美中不会直接对抗

共同发展才是主题。

那些台独， 建州派都应该至少歇歇了。


February 14, 2009

Clinton Seeks a Shift on China

By MARK LANDLER

Signaling a new, more vigorous approach to China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Friday that the United States had nothing to fear from an economically ascendant Beijing and that it would press Chinese leaders on delicate issues like human rights and climate change.

In her first major speech as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton drew a clear line between the Obama administration’s approach and that of the Bush White House, which viewed China more as a rival than a partner and kept relations fixed on economic matters like exchange rates.

“Some believe that China on the rise is by definition an adversary,” she said at the Asia Society in New York on the eve of a trip to China and other Asian countries. “To the contrary, we believe the United States and China benefit from, and contribute to, each other’s successes.”

At the same time, Mrs. Clinton called for “rigorous and persistent engagement,” not just with China, but with Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, which are also on her itinerary. And she took note of Tibet, saying that Tibetans had a right to practice their religion without persecution.

Climate change will figure high on Mrs. Clinton’s agenda in Beijing, where she said she would emphasize how the two countries must work together. She plans to visit an energy-efficient power plant near Beijing that is a joint venture of General Electric and a Chinese partner.

While Mrs. Clinton noted that China had recently surpassed the United States as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, she was critical of American policies, too, saying that the stimulus package just passed by the House was lacking measures that would promote more energy efficiency.

“The idea that we just continue putting off the future, when we are supposed to be the country of the future,” is puzzling to non-Americans, Mrs. Clinton said, sounding less like a diplomat than a presidential candidate.

Not since Dean Rusk in the 1960s has a new secretary of state flown west rather than east on a first trip. But Mrs. Clinton, who has already sent special emissaries to the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan, said, “There has been a general feeling that perhaps we didn’t pay an appropriate amount of attention to Asia over the last years.”

In one sign of a fresh start, Mrs. Clinton said the United States and China would resume middle-level exchanges between their militaries, which China suspended because of American arms sales to Taiwan.

所有跟帖： 

• 美国现在经济不好，需中国帮忙。还可以说一套，做一套。 -73659- ♀ (32 bytes) () 02/14/2009 postreply 12:11:33

• 政治这一行,还少有能靠着直觉混的 -monvoisin- ♂ (82 bytes) () 02/14/2009 postreply 23:44:16