【原文标题】We must treat China as a friend and ally this financial crisis
【登载媒体】telegraph.co.uk
【来源地址】http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/4389438/We-must-treat-China-as-a-friend-and-ally-in-this-financial-crisis.html
【译者】荡漾
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【译文】
英国应该欢迎中国总理的到来，我们的未来得靠他。
正常情况下中国总理的到访为聒噪的示威者提供了一个机会上街抗议中国糟糕的人权纪录及对待西藏人民的残暴。
就像世界上其他国家一样，我们英国人为了维持高生活标准非常依赖廉价的中国进口商品（从最新的高清平板电视机到设计师手袋）。若是对此不予考虑，向一个世界大国的领导人居高临下说教的自然而然的渴望看似将在他踏上英国土地的时候令我们的政治课堂激动不已。
说到人权问题中国可能是一个值得关注的目标，但时逢全球经济衰退，平心静气面对中国总理温家宝的布朗先生的头号议程理所当然应该是更为紧迫的经济问题。这是英国与中国之间一系列双边交流的最新对话。始于2004年的中英双边对话旨在促进更为友好的中英关系。自布莱尔访问北京开始两国关系走过了一段很长的道路。现在英国是中国最大的欧洲投资国，每年我们进口价值数十亿英镑的中国产品，尽管经济衰退，进口仍将继续。
西方对廉价消费品的贪婪胃口成为了中国非凡改革的驱动力，使中国成为了世界主要经济大国。这就是周末温家宝抵达伦敦理应得到礼貌些待遇的原因。
中国快速经济发展令人更为意想不到的结果之一是中国成为了一个非常富有的国家。和许多西方贸易伙伴国不同，中国在财富投资上很精明。美国总统奥巴马任命的财政部长盖特纳断然宣称不欢迎贸易保护主义言论的一个原因就是近年来中国已成为美国国债的最大买家之一，中国将其视为一项安全的投资。
许多西方国家的政府正借鉴布朗的做法试图通过各自的努力走出经济萧条，中国的金融实力成为西方设法借助的一个重要因素以便在一定程度上稳定住动荡的金融市场。假如中国突然将金融支持从西方经济市场撤离而作为对美国的保护主义言论的回应的话，经济萧条可能将迅速坠入深渊。
这就是为什么温家宝应该得到盟友对待而非猜疑的重要原因。中国也承受着全球经济衰退的痛苦，出口市场损失惨重。尽管去年的经济增长率达到令人惊叹的6.8%，但急剧缩水的出口市场价值预计将导致今年多达4000万个失业岗位，这很容易引起老百姓的动乱。
自称是亚当斯密的狂热信徒的温家宝反击西方企图令中国成为全球危机的替罪羊，这便不足为奇了。在上周的达沃斯经济论坛上他提醒说“合则两利，斗则俱伤”。
让中国更好地融入国际社会受益的远非全球金融。多年来中国与俄罗斯一样给世界留下企图破坏重大事件达成国际共识的印象。尤其是在联合国，中国坚持自己的立场，在伊朗核浓缩计划等问题上提出反对意见。
不过就像也遭受经济衰退之痛的俄罗斯总理普京认识到与西方合作比抵抗更有益一样，中国已清醒认识到要成为一个现代化全球大国的责任所在。说不定金融危机的好处之一将是见证一个真诚国际合作新时代的到来。
【原文】
Britain should welcome the Chinese PM this weekend – our future depends on him, says Con Coughlin.
Con Coughlin Last Updated: 7:21PM GMT 29 Jan 2009
In normal circumstances, the arrival of the Chinese Prime Minister on our shores is an occasion for noisy demonstrators to take to the streets in protest at China's lousy human rights record and the brutality of its treatment of the people of Tibet.
Irrespective of the fact that, to sustain our high standard of living, Britain, in common with the rest of the world, depends heavily on cheap Chinese imports (from the latest high definition, flat-screen televisions to designer handbags), an unerring urge to patronise and lecture the leader of one the world's major powers seems to infect our political classes the moment he sets foot on British soil.
China's approach to human rights might be a legitimate cause for concern, but in these days of global economic meltdown there are arguably more pressing issues that should top Mr Brown's agenda when he settles down with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao. The talks are the latest in a series of bilateral exchanges between London and Beijing, which began in 2004 in an attempt to put Sino-British relations on a more friendly footing. This relationship has come a long way since Tony Blair set the ball rolling during his visit to Beijing: Britain is now China's largest European investor, we import billions of pounds' worth of Chinese products every year and will continue to do so despite the recession.
The West's voracious appetite for cheap consumer goods has been the driving force behind China's remarkable transformation into one of the leading economic powers, which is why Mr Wen deserves to be treated with a little more courtesy when he arrives in London this weekend.
One of the more unexpected consequences of China's rapid economic development is that it has become a very wealthy country and, unlike many of its trading partners in the West, has invested its riches wisely. One reason the decidedly protectionist utterances from Tim Geithner, President Barack Obama's nominee for treasury secretary, are so unwelcome is that in recent years China has been one of the biggest buyers of US debt, which Beijing regarded as a safe investment.
At a time when many Western governments are following Mr Brown's example by attempting to spend their way out of the recession, China's financial muscle has become an important factor in the West's attempts to bring a degree of stability to the turbulent financial markets. If the Chinese, reacting to protectionist rhetoric from Washington, were suddenly to withdraw their financial support for the West's economies, the recession could rapidly deteriorate into something infinitely worse.
Which is one important reason why Mr Wen deserves to be treated as an ally rather than with suspicion. China is suffering badly from the global economic downturn, which has had a disastrous impact on its export markets. Although China's economy grew by an impressive 6.8 per cent last year, the dramatic reduction in the value of its export markets is expected to result in up to 40 million job losses this year, which could easily result in civil strife.
Not surprisingly Mr Wen, who proclaims himself to be an ardent fan of Adam Smith, resists any attempt by the West to make China the scapegoat for the global crisis. "A peaceful and harmonious relationship will make both sides winners, while a confrontational one will leave both losers," he warned this week at the Davos economic forum.
And drawing China more closely into the international fold could have benefits far beyond the world of global finance. For many years China, like Russia, has given the impression of trying to undermine attempts to achieve international consensus on major issues, particularly at the UN Security Council, where it has gone out of its way to be obstructive on issues such as Iran's nuclear enrichment programme.
But just as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose country is also suffering economic meltdown, has discovered the benefits of working with, rather than antagonising, the West, so China has woken up to the responsibilities of what it means to be a modern global power. And, who knows, one of the benefits of the financial crisis could be that we see the beginning of a new era of genuine international cooperation.
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