美中高層會談前夕,兩篇報導簡單摘要後,提供大家參考:
U.S. Punishes 24 Chinese Officials on Eve of First Talks Under Biden(NY Times)
https://ppt.cc/fYOIvx
美中高層官員在阿拉斯加會談前夕
美國提出制裁24位侵害香港民主之中國官員
提前定調對抗態勢
Setting a confrontational tone ahead of meetings in Alaska, the United States punished Chinese officials involved in eroding democracy in Hong Kong.
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Why Washington Is Fed Up With Beijing
美國為何受夠了北京 (Foreign Policy)
https://ppt.cc/fvBYax
因為美國不分黨派終於願意承認
中國不會也不願意(往世界期望的方向)改變
Decades of failed efforts to woo(求愛) China explain the Biden administration’s tough talk ahead of Alaska meeting.
BY MICHAEL HIRSH | MARCH 17, 2021, 4:01 PM
Behind those stark statements—something close to ultimatums(最後通牒)—lay more than two decades of frustration on the part of Blinken, President Joe Biden, and many other senior officials from both parties. Starting with the Clinton administration, which brought China into the World Trade Organization, and on through the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, Washington was eager to engage in a strategic courtship with China.
Many meetings were held, but none made much progress.
Now, like a political generation collectively shedding its blinders(脫掉眼罩), both Democrats and Republicans in Washington have belatedly(遲來的) realized that, as Blinken said in a speech earlier this month, China is not going to change, at least not swiftly or easily.