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发帖数: 7918 | 1 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/asia/05china.html?hp
September 4, 2011
Leaked Cables Offer Glimpses Into Relations of U.S. and China
By MICHAEL WINES
BEIJING — This capital city’s skies were clogged with pollution, as is
often the case, and China’s government was concerned. So it summoned
officials of the American Embassy here to a meeting.
But the session had nothing to do with hazy skies. Rather, Chinese officials
were peeved that the Americans were monitoring pollution themselves, and
posting on Twitter for anyone to read, their more precise findings, which
usually judged the smog far worse than official Chinese readings.
Chinese officials feared the conflicting information “might lead to ‘
social consequences,’ ” an American Embassy cable quoted the officials as
saying. So could the Americans please block Chinese citizens from visiting
the Web site?
That July 2009 cable, posted on the WikiLeaks Web site on Friday, is one of
hundreds from the American Embassy in Beijing that offer a glimpse into the
depths, and heights, of relations between the United States and Chinese
governments. The cables, involving secret but not very diplomatically
delicate correspondence between the two powers, cover topics ranging from
China’s claims on the South China Sea to the daily exercise regimen that
the Chongqing Communist Party secretary, Bo Xilai, designed for himself.
Their revelation appears unlikely to ruffle diplomatic relations. But they
could lead to serious consequences for Chinese academics, students and
others who talked frankly to American officials, and who are identified,
either by name or by precise description, in cables dealing with analyses of
Chinese positions.
The New York Times and other newspapers had previously reproduced some of
the cables, redacting the identities of people who might be endangered
should their names become known. But WikiLeaks, by mistake, later released
the entire trove of secret State Department cables that it obtained last
year, complete with the names of confidential sources, which were then
reposted last week on numerous Web sites.
Among the cables that named confidential sources were analyses of China’s
social stability, the isolated political position of the prime minister, Wen
Jiabao, and tensions between China’s majority Han population and ethnic
Uighurs in Xinjiang, the western region that has been plagued by violence in
recent years.
Most of those sources’ comments were unremarkable. But the fact that they
were made to American government officials could draw harsh punishment in
some cases.
The cables span the tenure of two American presidents and one Chinese, Hu
Jintao. A number of them have been previously made public. They describe a
crucial global relationship that is warm in some aspects and conspicuously
icy in others.
One lengthy report on 2009 military talks between the Pentagon and the
People’s Liberation Army noted that the senior Chinese official, Lt. Gen.
Ma Xiaotian, prolonged an hourlong discussion by an additional 30 minutes to
attack American arms sales to Taiwan and American military reconnaissance
within China’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.
General Ma also said China’s analysts did not believe that American missile
defenses were in fact defensive, arguing that they could also be used as an
anti-satellite force, and that American controls over its nuclear arsenal
were inadequate.
The cables include a stream of messages from American to Chinese officials
about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missile technology, usually
from North Korea or from Chinese companies to Iran. In cable after cable,
Americans warn of attempts by an Iranian front company in Malaysia to
purchase nuclear components; a North Korean flight to Iran, via Beijing,
that may have carried ballistic missile experts; and Iranian efforts to buy
aluminum plates from a Chinese company for use in cruise missiles. Other
cables cited Chinese companies’ efforts to sell prohibited technologies or
materials to Pakistan.
What the Chinese did with the warnings is not stated. In some cables,
Chinese officials repeated the government’s firm commitment to control
nuclear and missile proliferation, and pledged to pass the messages to
relevant agencies. In others, they expressed doubts about the veracity or
completeness of American information.
And in several cases, the American Embassy was forced to use go-betweens in
the Chinese government, apparently because Chinese arms-control offices had
suspended contacts with Washington in the wake of American weapons sales to
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发帖数: 23432 | 2 这些消息不是发在 twitter 的么？
P民已经都被铲子限制住了不能去 twitter了啊
officials
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: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/asia/05china.html?hp
: September 4, 2011
: Leaked Cables Offer Glimpses Into Relations of U.S. and China
: By MICHAEL WINES
: BEIJING — This capital city’s skies were clogged with pollution, as is
: often the case, and China’s government was concerned. So it summoned
: officials of the American Embassy here to a meeting.
: But the session had nothing to do with hazy skies. Rather, Chinese officials
: were peeved that the Americans were monitoring pollution themselves, and
: posting on Twitter for anyone to read, their more precise findings, which
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发帖数: 7918 | 3 Twitter好像是2009年6月2號開始封鎖的。
【在 p*********w 的大作中提到】
: 这些消息不是发在 twitter 的么？
: P民已经都被铲子限制住了不能去 twitter了啊
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