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Former Chinese ambassador: US should act as a responsible stakeholder

前驻美大使:望美做负责任的利益攸关方

来源:China Military Online 责任编辑:Xu Yi
2021-04-25 18:00:00
Zhou Wenzhong, former Chinese Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the US, is now the secretary-general of Boao Forum for Asia and vice president of China-US People’s Friendship Association.(Photo by CRNTT)

 

By Zhou Wenzhong

周文重

On the evening of April 19, Zhou Wenzhong , former Chinese ambassador to the US, suggested in an interview at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 on the China-US relations that it would be better if the US could pay attention to three things in its China policy. First, try to act as a responsible stakeholder ; second, truly return to multilateralism; third, respect China’s core interest s with the Taiwan question being one of them.

中国前驻美大使周文重19日晚在博鳌亚洲论坛2021年年会上中美关系议题接受媒体采访时表示,当前,美国在对华政策上要做三件事,一,希望美国能够做一个负责任的利益攸关方;二,希望拜登政府能够真正回到多边主义;三,在中美关系中,要尊重中国核心利益,台湾问题就是中国核心利益。

“I would like to take this opportunity to advise my American friends not to tie the China-US relations with a shift of dominance”, said Zhou Wenzhong, who solemnly stated that China does not and will never mean to dominate the world. It’s misleading to regard the bilateral relations as a transfer of dominance. What’s worse, it is easy to lead to conflict if misleading recurs.

“借这个机会我奉劝美国朋友,不要把中美关系看成是一种主导权的转移。”周文重说,从中国角度来讲,中方断然没有这样的想法。把中美关系看成主导权转移就是一种误导,如果误导一再发生就很容易导致冲突。

Zhou pointed out that there is a good opportunity for promoting vaccine cooperation between China and the US. Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi once said that in the first half of fight against COVID-19, various countries worldwide had been engaged with pandemic prevention and control, while vaccine cooperation could be the focus in the second half. “Could China and the US carry out vaccine cooperation instead of engaging in vaccine nationalism ? I sincerely hope the US could think about it”, he expressed.

周文重说,当前对于中美关系而言,有一个很好机会是疫苗合作。王毅国务委员曾说过,上半场各国防控疫情,下半场要开展疫苗合作。“中美之间能不能开展疫苗合作、不要搞疫苗民族主义?希望美方朋友能够考虑一下。”

Regarding the US policy toward China, Zhou believed that the US needs to weigh three things right now. First, the former US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick once urged China to “become a responsible global stakeholder ”, but now the US might be expected to be a responsible stakeholder by China; second, the Biden administration is deeply expected to truly return to multilateralism; and third, in China-US relations, China’s core interests, including those concerning the Taiwan question, should be respected, as it is China’s red line that cannot be crossed. “I sincerely hope that the Biden administration could take a cautious look at the problems faced by the previous administrations of the US”, added Mr. Zhou.

关于美国对华政策,周文重认为,美方现在要做三件事:其一,前美国副国务卿佐利克当年曾说中方要做负责任的利益攸关方,“现在我想反过来,也希望美国能够做一个负责任的利益攸关方。”其二,希望拜登政府能够真正回到多边主义。其三,在中美关系中,要尊重中国核心利益,台湾问题就是中国核心利益。因此,在台湾问题上,中国是画了红线的。“希望拜登政府能审慎看待过去美国历届政府处理这方面问题时存在的问题。”

Zhou reminded that China and the US should try to avoid some explosive issues, as those concerning the Taiwan question.

周文重表示,中美之间要避免一些爆炸性问题,台湾问题就是其中一个爆炸性问题。

The normalization of relations between China and the US was achieved under the premise that “the US agrees to cut all diplomatic relations with Taiwan and withdraw its troops from Taiwan.” Since then, China has always expected that the US will seriously handle the Taiwan question in accordance with the principles of the three US-China joint communiqués .

中美关系正常化就是在“美国同意美台断交、并从台湾撤军”的前提下得以实现的。中美关系正常化以来,我们一直期待美方能够认真按照中美三个联合公报原则处理台湾问题。

Regrettably, the US later passed a so-called Taiwan Relations Act following the three communiqués, and a considerable number of other bills related to Taiwan in recent years, according to which the US arms sales to Taiwan probably exceeded nearly 20 billion dollars in the Trump era , and may reach up to more than 5 billion dollars as scheduled this year. In addition, the reported transits of US warships through the Taiwan Strait are on the rise.

但遗憾的是,虽然有三个公报,但美国后来又通过一个“与台湾关系法”,美国国会近年来还先后通过了相当数量的与台湾问题相关的法案。根据这些法案,美国售台武器数量,在特朗普年代大概超过将近二百亿,今年可能又要达到五十多亿。此外,美国军舰穿过台湾海峡次数也在不断增加。

Whether the US could properly handle issues relating to the Taiwan region is concerned with the future of the China-US relationship, which deserves a second thought of the US side.

美方如何妥善台湾问题关系到中美关系的未来,对于这个问题,希望我们的美方朋友能够加以深思。