【中文标题】中日关系如何渡过这场灾难
【原文标题】How will China-Japan relations weather storm?
【登载媒体】GlobalPost
【原文作者】Kathleen E. McLaughlin
【原文链接】http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/110314/china-japan-aid-earth-quake-tsunami-bilateral-ties
中国救援队希望帮助日本，但这并不意味着争议不断的双边关系有转折的迹象。
2011年3月13日，中国救援队成员在日本地震和海啸之后在北京机场集结，准备前往日本。中国外交部长说，温家宝总理向日本政府和人民表达了“深切的同情”，并愿意提供任何“必要的帮助”。
中国已经派出了一支15人组成的救援队前往日本，帮助处理灾难性的地震和海啸救援工作。但是，在危机时提供帮助并不代表争议不断的双边关系有转折的迹象。
三年前，中国四川省的地震导致9万人丧生，一个日本搜救小队因在受灾地区帮助救援而登上了各大媒体的头条。这是具有重大象征意义的行为：自从二战结束，日本人被赶出中国之后，这是60年来日本军队第一次被允许进入中国领土。
政府对四川地震的响应标志着这个国家开始对类似事件采取更加透明的态度。1976年唐山大地震发生之后，中国政府拒绝接受外界的援助，25万人在灾难中丧生。
日本的救援队在四川使用了最先进的救援设备和搜救狗，却并未找到一个生还者，或许部分原因是双方的协商耽误了它们到达地震现场几天时间。当他们走出成都一个小宾馆的大门，准备离开中国时，救援队员们看起来都已经尽力了。
现在，全球第二大经济体和重要的政治力量——中国，准备伸出援手。
中国的政府媒体大量报道救援工作，发表了数张照片和中国救援队在日本工作的多篇报道文章。
新华社援引中国地震局局长陈健民在星期五对日本地震部门说：“中国地震工作人员完全了解日本人民当前的感受，我们随时准备向日本提供帮助。”
2008年，日本救援人员在全世界瞩目下踏上中国土地，有人在预测并希望中日关系会因此发生转折。然而在过去的三年里，双方是在争吵和逐渐瓦解的外交事件中度过的。中国民众都在热议日本的灾难和混乱，高层却在谈论这个问题上采取了更加谨慎的态度。
在星期一召开的新闻发布会上，温家宝总理在两个半小时的会议将近结束时，才开始关注日本。他首先询问数百名出席会议的人员（的确有这么多人）中是否有日本记者，然后说他不想回答他们的问题，但是有些话要说。温向日本表达了中国的“深切哀悼”。
温在每年的人民代表大会闭幕时与记者见一次面。他回答了一些国内外记者提出、事先经过选择的问题，今年没有给日本记者提问的机会。温讲了一番话。
“中国也是一个多地震的国家，我们感同身受。在汶川发生特大地震的时候，日本政府派了救援队，并且给中国以物资上的支援。我们的救援队昨天已经到达日本，我们运送的救灾物资也到达了日本。我们将根据日本的需要，愿意继续提供必要的帮助。请你们代为转达。”
中国已经承诺向日本提供15万美元用于灾后重建，但只有在危机逐渐消退之后，才可以看清双方的关系是否因此有所改善。
北京大学日本问题专家初晓波说，象征性的行为——就像2008年日本派往四川的救援队——可以帮助整体改善双边关系。
他在三年前说：“中国老百姓为他们的行为所感动，这极大地提升了日本在中国人心目中的形象。很明显，这是一次良好的合作。”
现在，轮到中国向日本提供同样的帮助了。
初说：“这样的行动会对两国关系产生正面的影响。人类已经变得越来越相互依赖，双边关系不仅仅是政治和经济层面的，而是某些更深层次的联系。”
评论：
Wendy Schorr：
“第二大经济体”就给出了15万美元的善款？真是博爱啊！
Jayesh Patel：
是啊，相比于中国的小邻居们曾经给它的捐款数量，的确是不多。台湾的捐款额是330万美元，还派出了一支63人组成的救援队，中国只派出了15人。即使是亚洲最贫穷的国家柬埔寨也捐出了10万美元，越南20万美元。蒙古和斯里兰卡，都是非常贫穷的国家，分别捐出1百万美元。韩国派出了107人的救援队，提供了数额不明（但是肯定不少）的善款。印度尼西亚和马来西亚也分别派出了救援队。中国在这方面太吝啬了，但至少要比印度强一点，印度到现在为止还没有捐出一分钱。而它一直都把自己当作日本最亲密的朋友，要比东南亚国家和中国更亲密。
Shun Huang：
Wendy，请先把事实搞清楚，日本现在不缺钱，而是缺少物资。根据路透社的报道（希望你知道这是国际上非常认可的信息来源），我引用以下信息：“政府已经向日本提供了价值3000万人民币（456万美元）的救灾物资，包括被子和帐篷。第一批物资已经离开上海。”所以，下一次请了解，在这种情况下，钱不是最重要的。
Steven Lee：
Shun Huang，我恐怕你纠正错误的努力，根本就没有落入那些满脑袋都想着如何抨击中国的人的耳朵里。他们无耻到想借用这次灾难来加固自身的偏见。对这些自以为是的沙文主义者来说，中国做什么事都是错误的。
Daniel Johnson：
一个沃尔玛商场向其周边社区的捐款金额都要多于中国在这次灾难中给日本的捐款金额，真是既自私又可悲！我在想，中国人是否可以用手机向慈善机构捐款呢？政府是否在有效管理这些行为？
Shun Huang：
我要把写给Wendy的话再给你写一遍。简单来说，中国没有捐很多的钱（目前情况下，钱有什么用？你认为日本真的缺钱吗？），但是他们做了以下事情：“政府已经向日本提供了价值3000万人民币（456万美元）的救灾物资，包括被子和帐篷。第一批物资已经离开上海。”日本需要的是物资，不是钱。
Shun Huang：
哦，忘了说以上消息来自路透社，我相信你应该知道来自那里的消息有很高的可信度。至少在欧洲是这样。
Jeff Day：
中国对慈善事业缺乏文化基础和基本的了解，很难相信吧？可事实就是这样。
Steven Lee：
你怎么知道的？在教会学校中学到的吗？
Raymond Geisel：
区区15万美元更像是一种侮辱。
原文：
Members of the Chinese rescue team prepare to depart to aid Japan, after the earthquake and tsunami, at the airport in Beijing on March 13, 2011. Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his "deep sympathy" to the Japanese government and people, and offered any "necessary help" to its neighbor, the foreign ministry said.
BEIJING, China — China has sent a 15-man rescue to team and promises of aid to Japan in the wake of its catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, but extensions of help in crisis won’t necessarily mean a long-term shift in the two countries’ contentious relationship.
When China suffered an earthquake in rural Sichuan province that killed nearly 90,000 people three years ago, a small Japanese search-and-rescue crew made international headlines by helping in recovery efforts. The symbolism was big: Japanese troops had not been allowed in China for 60 years, since the Second World War ended and they were driven out.
Sichuan’s disaster response also marked the start of a much more transparent attitude of a country that had buried its 1976 Tangshan earthquake and refused foreign aid, in a disaster that may have killed 250,000 people.
The Japanese crew in Sichuan, using world-class rescue equipment and search dogs, found not a single survivor; in part perhaps because negotiations delayed their arrival by several days. When they left China, shuttled out the side door of a small hotel in Chengdu, the Japanese crew seemed assured that they had done their best.
Now the world’s second-largest economy and a global political force, China is in position to extend a hand.
China’s state-run media reported heavily on the offers of aid, running photo slideshows and several stories about the Chinese crew working in Japan.
“Chinese seismic workers know exactly what Japanese people feel right now. We are willing to offer assistance to Japan anytime,” the Xinhua news agency quoted Chen Jianmin, director of the China Earthquake Administration, as saying Friday in a message to his Japanese counterpart.
With all the world attention those Japanese rescue workers attracted back in 2008, there was speculation and hope that Sino-Japanese relations had turned an important corner. Yet the past three years have been marred by more spats and frayed diplomatic relations. And while the Chinese public is talking non-stop about Japan’s turmoil, powers at the top have taken a much more guarded approach to discussing the situation.
It was only at the very end of his nearly 2.5-hour press conference on Monday that Premier Wen Jiabao turned his attention to Japan. He first asked if there were Japanese journalists among the gathering of hundreds (there were), then said he didn’t want to take a question from them, but had something to say. Wen offered China’s “deep condolences” to Japan.
.Wen meets with reporters once every year, at the close of the National People’s Congress. He takes a pre-screened selection of questions from journalists from China and other countries. This year no Japanese reporter was called on. Instead, Wen made a statement.
“China is also a country prone to earthquake disasters and we fully empathize with how they feel now,” Wen said. “We will provide more as Japan needs it and we want to continue to help as necessary.”
China has pledged roughly $150,000 in aid to Japan for recovery. Yet it remains to be seen whether rocky relations will return once the crisis abates.
Chu Xiaobo, a Sino-Japan relations expert at Peking University, said symbolic actions — like Japan’s aid in Sichuan in 2008 — can help the overall relationship.
Three years ago, he said, “common people in China were touched by their actions, and this greatly changed Japan's image in some Chinese peoples' mind. Obviously it was a good interaction.”
Now the same might come of China’s extension of aid to Japan.
“I think action like this has a positive impact on relations between countries,” said Chu. “Humans have become more dependent on one another and bilateral relations are not just about politics and economics anymore. It’s about connections on many deeper levels.”
Wendy Schorr
The "second largest economy" is pledging only $150,000 in aid? Such humanitarians!
Jayesh Patel
Yeah it's a bit low, considering China's tiny neighbors have given so much more. Taiwan has given 3.3 million $ and sent a 63 member rescue team as opposed to China's 15. Even Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the region has given $100,000, and Vietnam has given $200,000. Mongolia and Sri Lanka, both very poor countries in comparison, have both given $1 million. South Korea has sent a 107 member rescue team and an unknown (but large) sum of money. Indonesia and Malaysia have also sent an unknown number of rescue workers. China are being very stingy in this, but at least they've done more than India, who have not donated any money, and have historically considered themselves close friends of Japan, much more so than the Southeast Asian states and the People's Republic.
Shun Huang
Wendy, please get your facts and thinking straight, japan is in no need of money but more of resources and supplies. According to Reuters (which you hopefully know that is internationally recognized and relied on as a source of information) and i quote "The government has donated 30 million yuan ($4.56 million) of relief supplies to Japan, the first batch of which has already left Shanghai, including quilts and tents." so please next time do understand that money is not the most important thing in these kind of situations :).
Steven Lee
Shun Huang: your efforts to set the record straight, I'm afraid, is falling on ears too deafened with an opportunity for a good old China-bash. Shameless that they would use this tragedy to promote their prejudice. For these self-righteous chauvinists, nothing China does can ever be good.
Daniel Johnson
One Walmart spends more on the nearby community than the whole country of China is spending to help Japan in this major disaster! How very selfish and sad that is! I wonder if Chinese citizens are allowed to donate money to relief organizations from their cell phones, or does the government regulate that too?
Shun Huang
i'm going to write the same thing i wrote to wendy, basically: China has not donated lots of money (what's money really gonna do at this point of the situation. do you think Japan really needs money) however they have done this: "The government has donated 30 million yuan ($4.56 million) of relief supplies to Japan, the first batch of which has already left Shanghai, including quilts and tents." Japan needs suplies not money ;)
Shun Huang
oh yeah, forgot to add that the source is from Reuters which i think you should know that is a highly respected and reliable source of news and facts. Well atleast highly appreciated in Europe atleast :)
Jeff Day
China has no cultural inclination nor understanding of charity...hard to understand, but it is the way it is.
Steven Lee
where'd you learn that, in missionary school?
Raymond Geisel
Only $150,000 is more like an insult. |
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发表于 2011-3-15 13:07
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发表于 2011-3-15 13:11
五个人两条狗狗 这么久听到的最搞笑的事情了 嘿嘿。、
