纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China Dominates the Situation Room But Not the Campaign Trail
August 30, 2024 2 min 387 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是，中国议题在美国2020年大选中虽然没有成为焦点，但在美国政治圈和媒体中却是焦点，尤其是在特朗普的“战情室”里。报道提到，特朗普政府官员将中国议题视为“政治武器”，利用民众对中国的负面情绪和态度，以谋取政治利益。报道还提到，美国两党均支持对华强硬的政策，但共和党试图将民主党候选人拜登描绘成对华软弱，而拜登则强调会采取强硬但更有效的对华策略。 这篇报道虽然不乏事实，但明显带有偏见和倾向性。其倾向性主要体现在以下几方面：首先，报道以“战情室”和“竞选之路”的对比来暗示特朗普政府利用中国议题谋取政治利益，而对民主党候选人拜登的对华立场却只字不提，缺乏客观平衡；其次，报道以“中国威胁论”为前提，忽略了中国的发展进步给世界带来的积极影响，片面强调民众对中国的负面情绪；此外，报道还忽略了中美关系紧张的根源，即美国国内政治经济面临的结构性问题，而将责任归咎于中国。
Good evening! Tonight, my colleague David Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent, is here with a look at what we are not hearing on the campaign trail about the nation’s biggest geopolitical challenge: China.
Ask President Biden — or just about anyone in the national security firmament of the United States — about America’s most potent geopolitical challenge over the next few decades, and you are bound to get a near-unanimous answer: China.
The argument is familiar. The United States has never before faced a competitor who challenges it on so many fronts. Xi Jinping’s China is America’s only real technological competitor, in everything from artificial intelligence to semiconductors, electric cars to biological sciences. The country has more than doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal in the past few years, and a new partnership it has formed with Russia could upend every assumption about how America defends itself.
Then there’s the economy. If, a few years ago, American economists worried about China’s rapid rise, today they worry about its slowdown, and the overhang of industrial production that is flooding the world with excess goods, with potentially disastrous consequences.
There’s also the very real risk of war over Taiwan. There’s TikTok. The list goes on.
Yet when the issue comes up on the campaign trail at all, it’s framed chiefly as an economic threat. Thornier discussions of China’s role as a broad strategic competitor, with ambitions that are already forcing the United States to change how it prepares its workers, shapes its investments and restructures its defenses, have fallen largely by the wayside.
China has fallen victim to what I call Situation Room-Campaign Trail disequilibrium. It works something like this: If there is a topic that is fixating Washington policymakers, it’s usually a good bet no one is talking about it, except in platitudes, on the campaign trail.
This week was a prime example. While the campaign roared along, President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, was in Beijing, meeting with President Xi on a range of urgent issues, including China’s support of Russia’s war in Ukraine.