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(Bloomberg) -- The first high-level talks between the U.S. and China since President Joe Biden took office descended immediately into bickering and recriminations, with each side sharply criticizing the other over human rights, trade and international alliances. 
美國國務卿安東尼·布林肯在阿拉斯加安克雷奇舉行的會議上發了言。他誓言引起人們對最近網絡攻擊，新疆穆斯林的待遇以及北京對香港的日益控制的擔憂。他說，中國的行動威脅到國際秩序和人權。 布林肯說：“基於規則的命令的替代方案是一個世界，在這個世界中，權利是正確的，而獲勝者則擁有一切，這將是一個更加暴力和不穩定的世界。” 中國人開了槍。政治局委員楊潔chi發表了冗長的獨白，他說西方國家不代表全球輿論，並稱美國為網絡攻擊的“冠軍”。 他說：“美國境內的許多人實際上對美國的民主制度幾乎沒有信心，”他援引黑人美國人被殺害和黑人生活問題運動的話說。在開幕詞即將結束時，他說布林肯的評論不是“正常的”，並補充說“我的也不是”。 眨眼和國家安全顧問傑克·沙利文（Jake Sullivan）回應說，沙利文說：“一個充滿自信的國家能夠認真對待自身的缺點並不斷尋求改善，這是美國的秘密武器。” 事情從那裡變得更糟。攝像機從房間引來，然後才被召回。楊和外交大臣王毅趁機跟進，提出了更多批評。 “這就是您希望進行這種對話的方式嗎？” 據中國代表團的翻譯說，楊問。“我認為我們對美國的看法太好了。美國沒有資格從實力上與中國對話。” 責備儘管中國官員抗議說布林肯和沙利文的開篇批評無法招待客人，但美國一位高級官員此後表示，中國人意圖立足於舞台，從事戲劇而不是實質內容。 艱難的開端預示着中美關係變得多麼糟糕，並為世界兩個最大經濟體之間達成和解或和解的前景預示了糟糕的預兆。雙方計劃在周四和周五舉行一系列的三場談判會議，但是開幕式降低了阿拉斯加會議原本對期望的低門檻。 在會議開始之前，北京官員提出下個月拜登與中國國家主席習近平之間舉行虛擬峰會的可能性，正值世界地球日之際，並將注意力轉移到雙方表示可以達成共識的一個領域：應對氣候變化。目前尚不清楚阿拉斯加會談的艱難開端是否會破壞這一努力。 預計在安克雷奇會談中會出現一些緊張局勢。上任兩個月後，儘管拜登批評了前總統唐納德·特朗普，但新任美國總統似乎不太可能對其前任對中國的強硬態度做出重大改變。關於新疆的人權，香港的甚至關稅，特朗普時代的政策仍然存在。 普林斯頓大學外交政策教授，喬治·W·布什總統領導下的國家安全助手亞倫·弗里貝格說：“至少在最初，他們堅持特朗普留下的東西。” “在具體的事情上，比如說中國正在對新疆進行種族滅絕-那是他們在出門的路上留給他們的地雷-他們只是試圖擁抱它，而不是試圖解決這個問題。” 早些時候：美國對華警告中國會議不太可能取得突破 迄今為止，中國是拜登與特朗普連任的最突出例子，但還有其他一些例子：在沙特阿拉伯，拜登在批准王儲穆罕默德·本·薩勒曼出任總統期間一直不肯制裁，即使他超越特朗普，公開指責他死於專欄作家賈馬爾·卡舒格（Jamal Khashoggi） 。拜登正在接受特朗普推動重振美國，澳大利亞，日本和印度的四方聯盟的努力。布林肯讚揚了特朗普的《亞伯拉罕協議》，這是以色列與中東國家之間的和解。 國會共和黨人指責拜登疲軟的同時，他堅持反對從俄羅斯到德國的Nord Stream 2輸油管道，拒絕取消對伊朗的制裁，除非伊朗恢復遵守特朗普放棄的核協議，並繼續遵守該協議。經常訴諸金融制裁作為表達不贊成的工具。 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his remarks at the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, by vowing to raise concerns about recent cyber attacks, the treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang and Beijing’s increasing control over Hong Kong. He said China’s actions threatened the international order and human rights. “The alternative to a rules-based order is a world in which might makes right and winner takes all and that would be a far more violent and unstable world,” Blinken said. The Chinese fired back. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo, offered a lengthy monologue in which he said Western nations don’t represent global public opinion and called the U.S. the “champion” of cyber-attacks. “Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States,” he said, citing the killing of Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement. Near the end of his opening remarks, he said Blinken’s comments weren’t “normal” and added that in response “mine aren’t either.” Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan responded, with Sullivan saying “a confident country is able to look hard at its own shortcomings and constantly seek to improve, and that is the secret sauce of America.” Things only got worse from there. Cameras were ushered from the room, only to be called back in. Yang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi took the opportunity to follow up with even more criticism. “Is that the way you had hoped to conduct this dialogue?” Yang asked, according to his delegation’s translator. “I think we thought too well of the United States. The United States isn’t qualified to speak to China from a position of strength.” Placing BlameWhile the Chinese officials protested that the opening criticism by Blinken and Sullivan was no way to treat guests, a senior U.S. official said afterward that the Chinese were intent on grandstanding and engaging in theatrics over substance. The rocky start signaled just how bad the U.S.-China relationship has become and augured poorly for the prospect of an accommodation or rapprochement between the world’s two biggest economies. The two sides scheduled a series of three negotiating sessions on Thursday and Friday, but the opening lowered what had already been a low bar for expectations out of the Alaska meeting. Before the meeting began, officials in Beijing had raised the possibility of a virtual summit between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping next month, to coincide with Earth Day and turn attention to one area both sides have said they can reach agreement on: combating climate change. It’s not clear if the rocky start to the Alaska talks will derail that effort. Some tensions were expected at the Anchorage talks. Two months into office, and despite Biden’s criticism of former President Donald Trump, it appears the new American president is unlikely to make major changes to his predecessor’s hard-line approach to China. On human rights in Xinjiang, on Hong Kong’s and even on tariffs, Trump-era policies remain in place. “At least initially, they’re sticking with what Trump left them,” said Aaron Frieberg, a professor of foreign policy at Princeton University and a national security aide under President George W. Bush. “On concrete things like saying China is committing genocide in Xinjiang -- that was a land mine left for them on the way out the door -- instead of trying to work around it, they just embraced it.” Earlier: U.S. Cautions China Meeting Unlikely to Yield Breakthrough China is the most prominent example of Biden’s continuity with Trump so far, but there are others: On Saudi Arabia, Biden held back from sanctioning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman even as he went beyond Trump by publicly implicating him in the death of columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Biden is taking up Trump’s push to reinvigorate the Quad alliance of the U.S., Australia, Japan and India. Blinken has praised Trump’s “Abraham Accords,” the rapprochement between Israel and countries in the Middle East. And while Republicans in Congress accuse Biden of weakness, he is sticking to opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany, is refusing to remove sanctions on Iran unless it returns to compliance with the nuclear accord that Trump abandoned and is keeping up a frequent resort to financial sanctions as a tool to express disapproval. For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-and-china-descend-into-bickering-at-start-of-alaska-talks/ar-BB1eJd1b |
