纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China to Hold Live-Fire Drills Near War-Torn Myanmar
August 27, 2024 2 min 340 words
纽约时报这篇报道主要内容是：中国将在缅甸附近举行实战演习，报道提到中国外交部发言人在例行记者会上宣布了这一消息，并称此次演习是“正常的年度计划安排”。报道同时提到近段时间缅甸持续动荡的局势，以及中国在缅的利益和投资可能受到的影响。 评论：纽约时报的这篇报道，试图营造一种中国在缅甸问题上采取“军事行动”的观感。事实上，中国外交部发言人已明确表示，此次演习是正常的年度计划安排，和中国近期在缅甸问题上的立场并无直接关联。该报道的标题和导语，明显带有误导性，容易让不了解真相的读者产生对中国负面和敌对的印象。这篇报道延续了西方媒体一贯对中国的偏见和负面报道风格，缺乏客观公正的态度，有刻意抹黑中国之嫌。西方媒体应摒弃偏见，客观公正地报道中国，不要再抱持冷战思维和意识形态偏见，用“有色眼镜”看待中国。
China will hold live-fire military drills near its border with Myanmar starting on Tuesday, fortifying its boundaries with a southern neighbor that has been engulfed in a civil war for more than three years.
China’s People’s Liberation Army’s Southern Theater Command said on Monday that it would conduct both land and air exercises in the southwestern province of Yunnan to test the “joint strike capabilities of theater troops and maintain security and stability in the border areas.” China conducted two similar drills in April.
The patrols, which will last until Thursday, come less than two weeks after China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, visited Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, and reaffirmed Beijing’s support for the ruling military junta, which seized power in a coup in 2021. Analysts say that despite Mr. Wang’s pledge of support, Beijing is using the drills to send a signal to the junta that it would like the military to return to Chinese-led peace talks with rebels and refrain from intensifying the conflict.
Myanmar, a country of about 55 million long fractured by ethnic divisions, has been thrown into fresh chaos as the military resumed control. Thousands have been killed and tens of thousands detained by the junta, which has been accused of committing atrocities and killing civilians by bombarding the country with airstrikes.
The junta’s violence has led to the emergence of a resistance movement made up of both civilians from Myanmar’s urban areas who had become rebels and battle-hardened insurgents in the border regions who have been fighting for autonomy for decades. Together, they control about two-thirds of the country, mostly along its frontiers, while the military government holds the major cities located in the central lowlands of the Irrawaddy Valley.