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【原文标题】Behind the hype: China's reality 【登载媒体】presstv网站 【译者】yangfuguang 【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. 【译文】 鼓吹背后,真正的中国
发展中的经济危机不仅暴露了现代资本主义财政和经济体系的主要弊病,也暴露了世界上最大的夸张:那就是中国的力量。在过去十年中,全世界的学院都被中国会取代美国成为下一个世界强国的场景而兴奋。
但是,眼前的经济危机显示中国依赖美国太多。
中国总理温家宝在2009年3月公开表达了他对中国购买美国国债的担忧。
一个国家,作为一个强国候选人,是不会在他国的债券上投资那么多的美元的。只会是其他国家在它的国债上投资大笔的钱。
过去十年关于中国力量的公共关系运动主要推动了美国的形象。在共产主义崩溃和冷战的结束后,中国对合众国的嗜好使得美国可以宣传只有接受美国经济、政治、社会秩序才可以繁荣和进步。中国对美国的嗜好使得美国可以要求像中国这样的经济体系,就算是和自由经济背道的,只要遵守美国制定的经济规则,也是可以运转的很好的。
可以明确的说,中国接受美国的规则在短时间内确实对中国有好处。然而,从长远来看一个作为美国公司廉价劳力基地的国家是不可能繁荣的。当中国生活水平提高了,美国公司会撤走,在其他发展中国家寻找廉价劳力。如果中国变得足够富有,它的居民会向外国公司要求更多的薪水来维持生活水平,但是要求美国公司给予中国工人适当的薪水是不可能的任务。
不幸的是,在世界上还有很多国家的人们愿意被支付很少的薪水来给美国公司工作。因此,这些美国跨国公司将搬到别处。此外,中国经济为外国公司制造产品时可以给他们带来实际技术,这已经限制了中国自己的生产能力。通过把中国控制在自己的经济体系上,美国确信中国经济在美国设定的模式下运转。
以上显示,在中国作为世界强国候选者之前,它还有很长的路要走,以上的就是确凿的证据。无形方面的证据是,在国际上没有关于“中国生活方式”的概念。
可是,如果一个人到美国去,再到巴西,阿拉伯联合酋长国,法国或是其他国家,美国生活方式是显而易见的,至少在某个社会层面。美国推销自己消费方式的能力,和其自由的思想体系,以及把自己打上繁荣和文明的烙印,这些是美国地位的基石,作为世界大国的基石。在菲律宾,你很难发现有人愿意打扮成中国少年的样子,但是越来越多的中国少年愿意模仿美国少年的所为。
因此,中国缺少成为世界强国的必要条件,那就是中国的生活方式。
【原文】
Behind the hype: China's reality
The ongoing economic crisis not only exposes major faults of the modern capitalist financial and economic system, but also one of the major modern exaggerations, namely the might of China. Academic circles all over the world for the past decade were hyped-up by the idea that China was going to replace the United States of America as the next hyper-power.
However, the current economic crisis shows that China is much too dependent on the US. Chinese President Wen Jiabao openly stated in March 2009 that he is “worried” about China's exposure to US Treasury bonds.
A state, which is a candidate for the role of a hyper-power, would not be investing billions into the treasury bonds of another state. It would rather have other states investing billions into its treasury.
The ongoing PR campaign for the past ten years about Chinas power majorly played into boosting the image of the United States of America. After the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War the inclination of China towards the United States of America allowed the US to claim that only acceptance of the US model of economic, political and social order will lead to prosperity and progress. Chinese inclination towards the US allowed the US to claim that even a system as China's, which is very “backward” from the “free economy” can do well if it plays by the rules of the US established economical order.
It can definitely be said that Chinese acceptance of the US rules did benefit China in the short term. However, in the long run a country which is simply used as a cheap labor garage by the US corporations cannot prosper. The moment the standard of life will increase in China, US corporations will withdraw to abuse cheap labor in some other developing country. If China becomes rich it will most likely demand higher salaries for its citizens from foreign corporations in order for the citizens to sustain the higher standard of living and there is no way the US corporations are going to pay decent salaries to Chinese workers.
Unfortunately there are enough impoverished countries whose citizens can be paid pennies to work for US corporations. Therefore these US multinationals will move elsewhere. Furthermore, the dependence of the Chinese economy on producing for foreign companies, which usually brings the technological know-how with them, has limited China's own production capabilities. By tying China to itself economically the US made sure that Chinese economics function within the framework drawn up by the US.
The above is a tangible aspect on why China has an awfully long way to go before it can be seriously considered a candidate for the label of hyper-power. The non-tangible aspect consists of the reality that there is no internationally accepted concept known as the “Chinese way of life.”
However, if a person travels to the USA and then tours Brazil, UAE, France and other countries the “ American way of life” is very obvious, at least in some segments of the society. The ability of the US to market its consumer life style and its liberal ideology and brand it as what defines being prosperous and civilized is the corner stone of its status as the world's superpower. It would be difficult to find a teenager in the Philippines wanting to resemble a typical Chinese teenager, but an increasing number of Chinese teenagers would do almost anything to be like an American teenager. Therefore, China lacks the main ingredient to be a hyper-power, and that ingredient is a Chinese way of life.
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