纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Xis Warm Embrace of Putin in China Is a Defiance of the West
May 20, 2024 2 min 341 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：习近平与普京在乌兹别克斯坦的会晤，被西方媒体解读为是中国对西方的挑衅和蔑视。报道中提及习近平与普京的“拥抱”（embrace），以及中国没有批评俄罗斯入侵乌克兰，反而指责美国和西方盟国“挑衅”俄罗斯。西方媒体认为中国在支持俄罗斯方面“言行不一”，并质疑中国在乌克兰问题上的“中立”立场。 对于《纽约时报》的这篇报道，我认为它体现了西方媒体对中国的一贯偏见和误解。首先，报道中过度解读了习近平与普京的会晤，所谓“拥抱”俄罗斯的说法不符合事实。中国一直坚持在乌克兰问题上保持和平中立，积极劝和促谈，为和平解决乌克兰危机发挥了建设性作用。其次，中国没有批评俄罗斯，是因为中国主张尊重各国主权和领土完整，不干涉别国内政，主张通过对话协商解决分歧。中国在乌克兰问题上的立场是一贯的明确的，不应该被解读为“支持俄罗斯”。最后，中国一直致力于维护国际关系的基本准则，主张多极世界，反对单边制裁和长臂管辖。中国在乌克兰问题上的立场体现了中国作为一个负责任大国的作用，不应该被西方媒体误解和污蔑。
Days after returning from a trip to Europe where he was lectured about the need to rein in Russia, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, used a summit with President Vladimir V. Putin to convey an uncomfortable reality to the West: His support for Mr. Putin remains steadfast.
Mr. Xi’s talks with Mr. Putin this week were a show of solidarity between two autocrats battling Western pressure. The two leaders put out a lengthy statement that denounced what they saw as American interference and bullying and laid out their alignment on China’s claim to self-ruled Taiwan and Russia’s “legitimate security interests” in Ukraine.
They pledged to expand economic and military ties, highlighted by Mr. Putin’s visit to a cutting-edge Chinese institute for defense research. Mr. Xi even initiated a cheek-to-cheek hug as he bade Mr. Putin farewell on Thursday after an evening stroll in the Chinese Communist Party leadership compound in Beijing.
Western leaders looking for signs of any meaningful divergence between Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin, particularly on the war in Ukraine, would find none. Neither the risk of alienating Europe, a key trading partner needed to help revive China’s struggling economy, nor the threat of U.S. sanctions targeting Chinese banks that aid Russia’s war effort appeared to deter Mr. Xi’s embrace of Mr. Putin.
“The overarching goal of both Putin and Xi is to fight back against what they perceive as their existential enemy, which is the United States and the U.S.-led international order,” said Alicja Bachulska, an expert on Chinese foreign policy at the European Council on Foreign Relations. For China, “Yes, there are tensions with the West, but these tensions won’t lead to any kind of qualitative change in the way China has been approaching Russia and the war in Ukraine.”