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If you've been listening recently, you have watched the Trump administration speak quite a bit about the risks that China presents. The problem, though, is when China does business in places like Latin America, it often injects corrosive capital into the economic bloodstream, giving life to corruption and eroding good governance.

你们最近应该注意到到美国政府关于中国威胁的一系列表态。危机来自中方在拉美的商业行为，中方将腐蚀性资本注入拉美的经济血液之中，滋生腐败，侵蚀良性政府体系。

You saw this quite clearly here in the region at the Sinclair dam in the jungles of Ecuador – built by China under a previous administration, the dam was supposed to solve Ecuador's energy needs and help save the country and keep them out of poverty. But of course, we know how this story ends. The dam now runs to half capacity. The steel used to make it is full of cracks and there are accidents. Nearly every top official that was involved in the dam's construction is either imprisoned or sentenced on bribery charges.

就拿厄瓜多尔丛林中的辛克莱尔大坝来说，这一中资工程由厄前任政府通过，原意是解决厄瓜多尔的能源危机，并解决贫困问题。但事实如何呢？电站仅仅半负荷运行，钢材质量低劣、事故频发。几乎所有与该工程相关的高官，都因为贪污受贿而锒铛入狱。

The project included over $19 billion in Chinese loans as collateral. China, in exchange, received 80 percent of Ecuador's oil at a discount and then resold that oil to make a profit. This does not seem like a reliable partner to me. I am confident that it does not seem like a reliable partner to you either.

这项工程包含了中方的190亿美元抵押贷款，作为回报，厄对华石油出口量的80%将以折扣价格核算，中国再将这些石油高价转手套利。可信赖的伙伴不会这样做，我是这样认为的，相信你们和我有着一样的看法。

It was the Ecuadorian energy minister who put it quite bluntly. He said, quote, “The strategy of China is clear. They take economic control of countries.” We’re glad, indeed we’re thrilled, that President Moreno’s administration has taken swift action to convict those responsible for doing so much harm to their own people. The United States will always encourage Latin American partners to avoid these debt deal traps.

厄瓜多尔能源部长的评述可谓一针见血。“中国的策略很明确，就是要操控我们的经济”。我们对莫雷诺总统及时将相关责任人定罪、及时止损的做法，感到十分高兴。美利坚合众国将一如既往地支持我们的拉美朋友避免这些信贷陷阱。

Also consider Venezuela. China's bankrolling of the Maduro regime helped precipitate and prolong the crisis inthat country. China invested over $60 billion – $60 billion – with no strings attached. Well, it's no surprise that Maduro used the money to use for tasks like paying off cronies, crushing pro-democracy activists, and funding ineffective social programs. And you all know, better than anyone in America could know, the crushing, devastating results of that.

再看看委内瑞拉。中国对马杜罗当局的资金支持加剧了委内瑞拉的紧张局势。中国已经向马政府无条件投资了600亿美元！600亿美元！马杜罗拿着这笔钱去干嘛了呢？当然是私下分赃、当然是镇压示威、当然是继续投给那些永无出头之日的“社会发展项目”。这一切将会带来怎样的灾难性后果？你们应该比美国人更清楚。

I think there's a lesson, a lesson to be learned for all of us: China and others are being hypocritical calling for non-intervention in Venezuela's affairs. Their own financial interventions have helped destroy that country.

这一切给我们所有人的教训是：中国和其它一些国家虚伪地高喊“不要干涉委内瑞拉内政”，他们自己的干涉资金却在毁掉这个国家。

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But the good news is, the good news for all of us, is that South American countries are pushing back against this external meddling. The Inter-American Development Bank, celebrating its 60th anniversary, cancelled its meeting in Chengdu. It did this for the basic reason that China had refused to grant avisa to Venezuelan Juan Guido's official representative.

不过对我们大家来说，好消息是，南美国家正在拒绝这些瞎干涉。即将迎来六十华诞的泛美发展银行不久前取消了其在成都的会议，只因中方拒绝向委内瑞拉民选总统瓜伊多的代表发出签证。

Countries like Paraguay, meanwhile, are staffing up for their own interests and beliefs by supporting a democratic Taiwan.

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And the Lima Group countries – I cannot say enough about how they have stood up. They're seeing Russia and Cuba for what they truly are. They were opposed to China's efforts at the United Nations to protect Maduro in Venezuela. Perhaps the best news is that all these bold steps represent a fundamental shift – a fundamental shift in regional leadership. It's part of a trend in countries that have voluntarily stepped up to support peace, to support prosperity and freedom throughout this hemisphere.

至于利马集团的成员国，他们也站起来了，对此我无法表达我的激动之情。他们看清了俄国和古巴的真面目，他们在联合国的舞台上，也敢于反对中国保护马杜罗当局的行为。而真正的好消息是，这些强硬的姿态，都代表着区域领导力的根本转变，代表着西半球国家自愿朝着支持和平、支持繁荣、支持自由的方向转变。

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South Americahas truly become more clear-eyed and more wary of its pretended friends. China, Russia – they're showing up at the doorstep, but once they enter the house, weknow the debt traps. They will use debt traps, they will disregard rules, andthey will spread disorder in your home. Thankfully, you all, South America, is not buying it. You should know that the United States will stand behind you.

南美各国已不再会被那些虚情假意的朋友们所蒙蔽。中国、俄国：敲门时彬彬有礼，一旦登堂入室，他们带来债务陷阱、破坏规则、带来混乱。感谢你们，南美的朋友们，不再对他们买账，美利坚合众国永远支持你们。

As their economy has grown, asthey have become more sophisticated, their weapons systems with greater capacity, their technological capabilities greater, they've begun to use them in ways that present real risk to the United States. That's why we're ensuring that our networks here in the United States are trusted and secure, so we're not going to allow in systems that are owned by the Chinese Communist Party. You don't want it on one that you can't trust.  You don't want your information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. 

他们经济实力、外交手段、军事实力和技术实力越来越强，对美利坚合众国的威胁也愈发真切。所以我们必须确保美利坚合众国国内的网络安全可信，所以我们不会允许受中国控制的网络系统进入美国。你们不会希望让自己的信息被不值得信任的人所掌握。你们也不会希望自己的信息落到中国的手里。

Make no mistake about it, some of the Chinese transactions, straight-up business deals, competing against the United States, and when that's the case we welcome that competition. But where it's not, we've got an obligation to tell those countries about the risks connected to what it is that those Chinese businesses are doing, their connections to the Chinese Government. We're not looking to hold China back. We are looking to make sure that there's fair, reciprocal trading regimes, rule of law existing all throughout the globe. We're confident if we do that, America can be successful. And we believe that if China would do that, it can be successful as well.

声明一下，对于那些纯粹商业目的的竞争，美国欢迎中国的参与；但如果不是，我们就有义务告知相关国家中方企业的真实嘴脸，告知他们这些企业和中国政府的内在联系。我们不希望遏制中国，我们只是希望确保公平互利的贸易、确保法治光辉普照全球。我们相信，美国的成功是因为我们能做到这些；而如果中国能做到这些，他们一样能成功。

And then China will have to make a choice as well. It will have to decide if it wants to participate in a rules-based order where transparency, respect for intellectual property rights.  But if they choose a different path, an expansionist path or a path that behaves in the world where you show up and offer deals that aren't truly economic deals, right, with their Belt and Road — and other offshoots of that that aren't economic deals. They're really deals about political influence. If that's the tools which they use to choose to compete around the world, then I'm sure that the world will respond in a way that has to push back against them.

中国也必须做出选择。他们必须决定，自己是不是要遵守基于规则、透明和尊重知识产权的游戏规则。他们要是选择一条扩张主义的道路——或者通过“一带一路”去推广一些不是纯粹商业目的，而是带有政治目的的合作——的话，我想，他们要这样去参与全球竞争的话，会遭到全世界的抵制。

Their efforts, these infrastructure efforts – they call it their Belt and Road Initiative – we've talked to countries all around the world and reminded them that if these are straight-up commercial transactions it'd be one thing, but most often they are not.  Most often they are commercial projects – or national security projects masquerading as commercial projects, an attempt to use their state-owned enterprises to gain political influence and power.

中国的基建项目——他们称之为“一带一路”倡议——我们给很多国家都穿过华：如果这些是纯商业项目那另当别论，但可惜事与愿违，多数是伪装成商业项目的国家安全相关项目，中方希望通过国企来拓展自身的海外影响和权益。