纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英What Kamala Harris Needs to Do to Take On China
August 27, 2024 2 min 310 words
纽约时报这篇报道的主要内容是，美国副总统哈里斯在访问亚洲期间，特别是在访问越南期间，应该如何应对中国。报道认为，哈里斯应该利用这次访问向中国施压，并展示美国在该地区的参与程度。它还提到哈里斯应该在人权和领土争端问题上向中国施压。 这篇报道体现了西方媒体常见的对中国带有偏见的看法。首先，它假设美国应该在亚洲，特别是越南，发挥主导作用，并认为哈里斯访问该地区的主要目的应该是对抗中国，而不是寻求合作或促进该地区国家的发展。此外，报道还强调了人权和领土争端问题，而忽略了中国在改善该地区人民生活方面的贡献。这种选择性报道可能导致读者形成一种偏见，认为中国在该地区是一个侵略性和不尊重人权的国家。客观地说，中国在尊重他国主权和促进地区经济发展方面做出了巨大贡献。西方媒体应该提供更公正更全面的报道，承认中国取得的成就，而不是仅仅聚焦于负面事件。
The United States needs a strategy for dealing with China as an economic and national security threat, and Donald Trump’s blustery “America First” approach ain’t it. Kamala Harris has a better shot because of her belief in strengthening alliances.
In her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, the vice president promised to make sure that “America, not China, wins the competition for the 21st century.” In the same sentence, she hinted at how she intends to make that happen. She promised to “strengthen, not abdicate, our global leadership.”
Trump’s go-it-alone approach can’t work because the United States isn’t powerful enough to take on China alone.
There is a better way. I read about it in an important article in the September-October issue of Foreign Affairs by Aaron Friedberg, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. Its title is “Stopping the Next China Shock: A Collective Strategy for Countering Beijing’s Mercantilism.”
First, the problem. Friedberg writes that 25 years after a surge in Chinese exports disrupted global trade, Beijing is again flooding the world with a wave of “heavily subsidized manufactured goods and materials.” For Beijing, this serves two purposes. It keeps Chinese workers employed at a time that domestic demand is weak. And it transforms China into “the world’s most productive, innovative and powerful state.”
Western economists and diplomats have argued for years that China could score a win-win by consuming more of what it makes instead of selling so much of it abroad. Boosting domestic consumption — and thus shrinking the trade surplus — would raise the living standards of the Chinese people while relieving pressure on foreign factory workers.