【链接】http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12708134
【标题】Crisis or no crisis, China’s diplomatic priorities prevail
【翻译】Krypton
The summit of discourtesy Nov 27th 2008 | BRUSSELS
From The Economist print edition Crisis or no crisis, China’s diplomatic priorities prevail SUMMITS are a dime a dozen these days. So it is tempting to shrug off the announcement on November 26th that China pulled out of an EU-China summit, at less than a week’s notice. But China’s high-profile snub—aimed at President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who was to be the host on the European Union side—cannot be dismissed so easily. 峰会年年有，今年特别多。所以要在不到一周的时间内摆脱中国11.26宣布的推迟中欧峰会的阴影是有吸引力的。然而中国对法国总统萨科奇——中欧峰会东道主——高姿态的指责不会轻易停止。 Cancelling a meeting at such a high level is a rare breach of diplomatic manners. Mr Sarkozy has irked China by proposing to meet the Dalai Lama at a party in Poland for former winners of the Nobel peace prize on December 6th. Before then, he was due to play host to the Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, in the French city of Lyon, in his capacity as holder of the rotating presidency of the EU. Some of the EU’s regular summits with China are very dull. This one had important things to discuss, such as joint action on tackling the global financial crisis. An official EU statement regretted the summit’s postponement, “particularly” at a time when the world situation calls for “very close co-operation”.
Mr Sarkozy seems singled out for special punishment. Both Angela Merkel of Germany and Gordon Brown of Britain have met the Dalai Lama in the recent past, without triggering such diplomatic fireworks. Mr Sarkozy, a mercurial chap, may not have prepared the ground with Beijing for his meeting with the Dalai Lama quite as diligently as did Ms Merkel and Mr Brown, diplomats suggest. Also, France and China have had some bruising spats this year: Mr Sarkozy criticised China’s handling of unrest in Tibet; the Olympic-torch relay was disrupted by protests in Paris (as in London); Mr Sarkozy hinted he might stay away from the opening of the Beijing Olympics unless China started talks with the Dalai Lama. Reprisals followed, notably an apparently temporary tourism boycott of France by China.
萨科奇似乎是受到特别惩罚。德国总理默克尔和英国首相布朗最近都会见过达赖喇嘛，却没有引发这样的外交摩擦。外交官表示，这个善变的萨科奇没有像默克尔和布朗一样，没有处理好会见达赖喇嘛的背景。此外，今年中法已有摩擦：萨科奇指责中国处理西藏动乱的方式，巴黎奥运火炬传递受到抗议者破坏，萨科奇暗示只有中国恢复与达赖喇嘛对话才会出席北京奥运会开幕式。报复紧跟而来，最明显的是中国对法国游的短暂抵制。
But other things are in motion. Recently the French, who will surrender the EU presidency at the end of December, unexpectedly put out feelers to see if other EU countries wanted to move ahead with a long-delayed EU code of conduct on arms sales to China. That code of conduct has long been presented by the French as the key to a much bigger prize for China: the scrapping of an EU embargo on arms sales to China, dating back to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. The French, it is said, found little enthusiasm for movement on the arms-for-China dossier. America dislikes any idea of EU arms helping China modernise its army, since American troops might one day be on the wrong end of such lethal toys, in a fight over Taiwan. European leaders are not about to annoy the new President Obama, just to please China. 但其他事务仍在运转。最近，12月底即将交还轮值主席职位的法国突然释放出信号，试探其他欧洲国家是否愿意将长期推迟的对华军售的行动法则提前。作为对中国一个极大的战利品的关键，该行动法则一直由法国提出：即废除欧盟在1989年天安门大屠杀以来对华实施的武器禁运。据说法国对解除对华武器禁运比较冷淡。美国因为担心在台海战争中受攻击，而不喜欢任何关于中国用欧洲武器实现军队现代化的想法。欧盟领导人不会为取悦中国而惹恼美国新总统奥巴马。 | 
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发表于 2008-11-28 20:12
中国现在就要牛B点！
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