【华尔街日报】Pelosi's Chinese Climate Change

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Pelosi's Chinese Climate Change

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124381291173770487.html

Speaker Nancy Pelosi took her climate crusade to China last week, urging that "we must work together" to address what she called this urgent challenge. Her junket won't change many Chinese minds but it does speak volumes about her party's changing priorities.

Back when Mrs. Pelosi was a rising liberal star her signature issue was human rights in China. In 1991, she famously unfurled a pro-democracy banner in Tiananmen Square. During the Clinton Administration, she argued against normalizing trade relations with China unless linked to human-rights progress. Yet throughout last week's China tour Mrs. Pelosi said nothing of note about human rights -- despite the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre this week.

Mrs. Pelosi told us in a brief interview in Hong Kong that she had raised human rights "privately" with Chinese leaders. She explained that her previous human rights lobbying had been in a "personal capacity" as a mere Congresswoman, but now that she is Speaker she "speaks for Congress" and has to take a softer approach. That argument would be more credible had Mrs. Pelosi not regularly excoriated Republican Presidents for not doing more about Tibet and the other billion or so Chinese who lack basic political freedoms.

The reality is that her former convictions have fallen to the new liberal imperative of saving the world from carbon: "Workers rights, human rights, people's rights are part of environmental justice," she declared, in language that the leaders of a "People's Republic" can appreciate. With China now the world's No. 1 CO2 emitter, Democrats are desperate to sign up China for the follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol lest the exercise again be pointless.

A student at a Beijing university returned fire, asking Mrs. Pelosi what could be done that might convince American voters and Congress to cut back on emissions. "We have so much room for improvement," Mrs. Pelosi replied, according to the Associated Press. "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory . . . of how we are taking responsibility."

At least she's honest about what her climate project would really mean state-side. Most Democrats have a kind of global-warming split personality: On the one hand, New York will be underwater unless we create millions of new green jobs by imposing a cap-and-trade tax. Yet they also ridicule anyone who points out that their carbon limits will result in huge new taxes and costs for people who use electricity, drive cars, buy groceries -- which is say, everyone.

Speaking earlier in Shanghai, the Speaker elaborated: "I think that from what I've heard so far from the Chinese side of this -- and I think we're all in this together -- that the economic aspects of it are very, very important to the Chinese as well." The Speaker was talking about "green investment," though what Beijing actually wants is for developed nations to hobble their own economies with a cap-and-tax regime that would send jobs and billions of dollars a year in transfer payments to China the way Kyoto has. So the Chinese economy would be more efficient, while the West would be less competitive.

Whatever Chinese leaders do collectively on climate change, they must be relieved that Mrs. Pelosi no longer wants to press very hard for individual rights.

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这篇要麻烦斑竹先审查一下，我现在拿捏不准什么能发去外媒传真，什么发原文库也不行。

如果能翻，这个我就自己认领了。

麻烦了

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http://bbs.m4.cn/thread-170233-1-1.html

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我不知道，我知道，我被骗了，我被谁骗了
      当国内一帮子精英翘首以盼佩洛西大婶来北京“有所作为”的时候，他们是否想到，在一个并不遥远的下午，佩洛西大婶的胡言乱语？

     自从奥巴马上任后，首先的工作就是要对付布什留下的一些麻烦。关闭关塔那摩基地监狱就是其中一个。不过有句话说的好哇：出来混得都是要还的。布什留下的关塔那摩基地监狱可不是因为没生意做而是“欠债”太多——使用各种酷刑逼良为娼的丑闻已经是人尽皆知了，试问这笔烂帐招谁去算？小马总统看了看佩洛西大婶：麻烦贵为议长的您为国家跑一趟吧~

     于是就出现了标题上的一幕，佩大婶一脸无辜的对共和党大吼“侵犯人权！”而面对大众“我什么都不知道”，且不说共和党的反呕，连民主党的战友都看不下去出面提醒：早在2003就告知佩大婶其中的详细！时隔6年后的谴责是不是晚了点？从“我不知道”到“我知道，但那是合法的，并且没有使用”再到“我是被骗了，被布什政府骗了”（官方点的说法是“误导”）——且不说这是一个全美著名的“人权斗士”所作所为，谁能想到堂堂美国国会众议院议长就是这样语无伦次胡说八道？难怪中国外交部出台美国人权白皮书的时候友情提醒：千万别在晚上看！

     当佩洛西以议长身份访华的时候，其实就已经标志着佩大婶从以前的举着双枪到现在终于缴枪不杀了。查查历史就该知道，当初她拿着“人权民主”的旗号反华是在拆谁的台？每年年末都要拿“对美贸易最惠国待遇”向中国吃拿卡要的舒服日子是不是很怀念呢？相信克林顿不会忘记他懊恼的每一次为这些“制造出的麻烦”疲于奔命的日子吧？不过作为中国人还是十分感谢佩大婶的努力——没您的上下翻腾，克林顿也不好下定决心去玩命的游说国会，全体通过决议使中国成为“永久最惠国待遇”啊？

     有道是不在其位不谋其利。每次端着小板凳坐边上一边凉快一边高喊“人权自由民主”，给政府拆台的小角色一朝作了大人物总是会让昔日的旧友们有些失望的。用老百姓的话讲就是“花别人钱不肉疼，花自己钱才心疼！”眼下奥巴马延续布什对中国的关系政策，步步跟进强调中美合作，堂堂一个美国国会众议院议长如果不能为自己效忠的政府出谋献策尽心竭力，还如同以往站着说话不腰疼惟恐天下不乱，岂不是要遭到生儿子都没腚眼的报应？哦，对了，佩大婶更年期过了吧，似乎已经不能生了……

      所以看看渴盼着佩洛西的那些精英们倒也可怜，想必他们也在想不通：“我不知道，我知道，我被骗了，我被谁骗了？”