【原文标题】 U.S. of Who?
【中文标题】谁的美国？
【登载媒体】Newsweek 新闻周刊
【来源地址】http://www.newsweek.com/id/233183
【译 者】 囧囧人
【翻译方式】 人工
【声 明】 本翻译供Anti-CNN使用，未经AC或译者许可，不得转载。
【原文库链接】http://bbs.m4.cn/thread-222679-1-1.html
【译 文】
China's America watchers have fallen on tough times. Back in their profession's glory days, in the 1980s and '90s, they were able to spend years in the United States learning about the place, and both Washington and Beijing were eager for them to report home on what they'd discovered in the New World. Chinese leaders were trying to integrate their vast country into a world system dominated by America, and they took particular interest in how Washington viewed their country. But now U.S. funding for stateside field work has dried up, and Beijing shows little interest in the United States except to complain, threaten, or refuse to work together on global problems.
中国的美国问题观察家现已陷入困难境地。回顾他们职业的光辉岁月，在上世纪80年代到90年代间，他们可以在美国花费数年的时间去研究这块土地，而华盛顿和北京都极为渴望得知这些观察家发回国内的他们眼中的“新世界”究竟如何。中国的领导人试图将他们广阔的国家融入美国主导的世界体系中来，因而他们非常想知道华盛顿是如何看待他们这个国家的。但现在，美国为“国内实地测量工作” （应是暗指在美国工作的来自中国的美国问题观察家的工作——译者注）提供的资金已经枯竭，而北京方面也对美国开始兴致缺缺，除了抱怨、威胁或者拒绝在全球问题上的合作外。
The latest outburst came in response to word from the White House that President Obama still expects to meet with Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama next week. Chinese officials were already in a fury over U.S. plans to sell $6.4 billion worth of Blackhawk helicopters, Patriot missiles, and other military hardware to Taiwan. Beijing suspended military-to-military exchanges, and for the first time publicly ordered sanctions against U.S. armsmakers rather than quietly boycotting them. And that's on top of other slaps at Washington, going back to Premier Wen Jiabao's public criticism of U.S. economic policy in Davos a year ago.
最新的轰动世界的消息来自白宫，奥巴马总统执意要在下周会见西藏流亡的达赖喇嘛。中国官方此前已对美国计划向台湾出售价值64亿美元的武器，包括“黑鹰”直升机、爱国者导弹以及其他的军备硬件表示了强烈愤慨。北京中止了两国的军事交流，并且首次公开表示可能会对美国的武器制造商实行制裁而非悄悄抵制。比起温家宝总理在去年的达沃斯会议上对美国经济政策的公开批评，这回更相当于是扇了华盛顿一下最重的巴掌。
The Chinese press says that things have changed. TheGlobal Times, a People's Daily affiliate often critical of the West, attributed the "shift in tone" to two factors: "First is changing Chinese public opinion, which long ago got fed up with America's hedging games … The second is China's growing power." That kind of talk may suggest to Westerners that China's new global stature has gone to its head. But what's really driving the country's leaders is a very different emotion: profound insecurity.
中国媒体报道说，世界变了。环球时报、人民日报经常联合起来批评西方，将“改变口径”的原因归结于两点：“一是改变中的中国的公众舆论，舆论早就受够了美国的闪避游戏……第二是因为中国日益增长的国力。”这种谈话可能暗示西方人，中国全新的全球地位已经位于前列。不过，真正触动这个国家的领导人的其实是因为一种完全不同的情绪：（该国人民思想的）深刻的不稳定性。
It's not that Chinese leaders no longer care what the Americans think. They're just so much more worried about what ordinary Chinese think. Growing prosperity and greater communication with the outside world have made the country's more than 1.3 billion people much harder to manage than they used to be. Now it's a matter of basic survival for party bosses to keep a close eye on public opinion. "Today's government needs to be more responsive to rising nationalism among its own people," says the dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, Wang Jisi. Widely regarded as China's leading expert on the United States, he deplores the notion that America doesn't matter anymore. "These days I'm studying China more than [I'm studying] the United States," he says.
不是中国的领导人不再关注美国人在想什么，而是他们更担心普通中国人究竟在想什么。日益繁荣的经济和与外界越来越多的沟通联系使得领导人难以像以前那么容易操控这个国家超过13亿的人口。现如今，这问题已关系到这个政党（共产党）的生死存亡，于是他们的大老板们开始关注起了公众舆论。“今天的政府需要对他的人民里面高涨的民族主义负起更多的责任。”北京大学国际研究所的主任王吉思（音译）如是说。王被认为是著名的中国研究美国方面的顶尖专家，他对美国不再在乎中国而深表遗憾，“最近我研究的更多的是中国而非美国。”他说。
Senior leaders' staffs now devote huge amounts of time and resources to monitoring public opinion. They commission social surveys and even assign undercover researchers to unearth what ordinary Chinese really think. The aides' No. 1 source of information is the Internet: Web comments are generally regarded as a key gauge of grassroots sentiment. "Public opinion mainly means the opinions of Netizens," says Jin Canrong, vice dean of the institute of international relations at Renmin University and a veteran America watcher. "China has 384 million Netizens—150 million more than America—and government leaders pay great attention to what the majority say during their decision making."
高层领导群现在投入了大量的时间和精力在监督公众舆论上面。他们委托进行社会调查甚至任命秘密研究人员去发掘和披露普通中国百姓的真实想法。第一手的信息来源就是网络：网络评论现已被广泛认为是草根阶层发表意见的重要测量标准。“公众舆论主要意味着来自网民们的意见。”金灿荣（音译）说，他是人民大学国际关系机构的副主任，也是资深的美国问题观察家，“中国有三亿八千四百万网民，比美国多一亿五千万。政府在制定决策时，会对这个拥有大多数人的群体给予极大的关注。”
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But what's really driving the country's leaders is a very different emotion: profound insecurity.AC四月青年社区* e$ n- Y+ M. V% s
不过，真正触动这个国家的领导人的其实是因为一种完全不同的情绪：（该国人民思想的）深刻的不稳定性。
不过，真正触动这个国家的领导人的其实是因为一种完全不同的情绪：深刻的不安全感。（指中国政府感到自身不安全。）
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他对美国不再在乎中国而深表遗憾，
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