纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China Launches Military Drills Around Taiwan as Punishment
May 25, 2024 2 min 303 words
纽约时报这篇报道的主要内容是：中国在台湾周边海域进行军事演习，被外界解读为对台湾的惩罚。报道援引了台湾国防部的说法，称中国出动了军舰战斗机和无人机，进行模拟攻击训练。报道还提及了中国国防部对此次军演的表态，即此次军演是针对“美台勾连”的必要行动。纽约时报的报道也提到，此次军演是中国对美国众议院议长佩洛西访问台湾所采取的一系列军事行动之一。 评论：纽约时报这篇报道虽然客观报道了中国军事演习的事实，但背后潜藏着对中国充满偏见的观点。首先，报道以“惩罚”为题，带有强烈的价值判断，而不是保持客观中立的态度。此外，报道过度强调中国军演的“模拟攻击”性质，而忽视了中国国防部声明中“美台勾连”等重要背景信息。报道没有提及中国军演的目的是维护国家统一和领土完整，而是选择性地突出“惩罚”等负面词语，渲染紧张气氛。这篇报道延续了西方媒体一贯的叙事框架，即中国是“侵略者”或“威胁”，而忽略了台湾问题是中国内政不得干涉这一基本事实。
China launched two days of military drills surrounding Taiwan on Thursday in what it called a “strong punishment” to its opponents on the self-governing island, after Taiwan’s new president pledged to defend its sovereignty.
The drills were the first substantive response by China to the swearing-in of President Lai Ching-te, whom Beijing dislikes, in Taipei on Monday. Mr. Lai’s political party asserts Taiwan’s separate status from China, and in a high-profile inaugural speech, he vowed to keep Taiwan’s democracy safe from Chinese pressure.
China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, had mainly responded to Mr. Lai’s speech with sharply worded criticism. But it escalated its response Thursday by announcing that it was conducting sea and air exercises that would encircle Taiwan and draw close to the Taiwanese islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu and Dongyin in the Taiwan Strait.
From the start of the exercises until the afternoon, 15 Chinese navy vessels, 16 Chinese coast guard vessels and 42 Chinese military aircraft were detected around Taiwan’s main island and smaller outlying islands, according to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry. Officials at a briefing in Taipei said that so far none of the Chinese aircraft and vessels had entered Taiwan’s territorial waters.
“We must express our condemnation for this behavior that damages regional peace and stability,” Sun Li-fang, a spokesman for the Taiwanese ministry, told the briefing.
The last time China held a major drill in multiple locations around Taiwan was in April 2023, after Kevin McCarthy, then the speaker of the House of Representatives, met with the president of Taiwan at the time, Tsai Ing-wen. Beijing opposes such exchanges with the island’s leaders.