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发帖数: 2812 | 1 这是《纽约时报》上的一个观点小文章"From WikiChina"，读后让我开怀大笑。难得难
得!! 作者Tom Friedman用一个美国人想象中的中国人的心态，诉说了美国今天的政治
和经济的问题，也隐含地点出了他们所认为的今天的中国人在对美国的看法上所发生的
微妙的变化。有意思的是，读毕，你可以有非常不同的感觉。
FROM WIKICHINA
By Thomas L. Friedman
Published: November 30, 2010
The New York Times
While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers,
I couldn’t help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could
see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? I suspect
the cable would read like this:
Washington Embassy, People’s Republic of China, to Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Beijing, TOP SECRET/Subject: America today.
Things are going well here for China. America remains a deeply
politically polarized country, which is certainly helpful for our goal of
overtaking the U.S. as the world’s most powerful economy and nation. But we
’re particularly optimistic because the Americans are polarized over all
the wrong things.
There is a willful self-destructiveness in the air here as if America
has all the time and money in the world for petty politics. They fight over
things like — we are not making this up — how and where an airport
security officer can touch them. They are fighting — we are happy to report
— over the latest nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. It seems as
if the Republicans are so interested in weakening President Obama that they
are going to scuttle a treaty that would have fostered closer U.S.-Russian
cooperation on issues like Iran. And since anything that brings Russia and
America closer could end up isolating us, we are grateful to Senator Jon Kyl
of Arizona for putting our interests ahead of America’s and blocking
Senate ratification of the treaty. The ambassador has invited Senator Kyl
and his wife for dinner at Mr. Kao’s Chinese restaurant to praise him for
his steadfastness in protecting America’s (read: our) interests.
Americans just had what they call an “election.” Best we could tell
it involved one congressman trying to raise more money than the other (all
from businesses they are supposed to be regulating) so he could tell bigger
lies on TV more often about the other guy before the other guy could do it
to him. This leaves us relieved. It means America will do nothing serious to
fix its structural problems: a ballooning deficit, declining educational
performance, crumbling infrastructure and diminished immigration of new
talent.
The ambassador recently took what the Americans call a fast train —
the Acela — from Washington to New York City. Our bullet train from Beijing
to Tianjin would have made the trip in 90 minutes. His took three hours —
and it was on time! Along the way the ambassador used his cellphone to call
his embassy office, and in one hour he experienced 12 dropped calls — again
, we are not making this up. We have a joke in the embassy: “When someone
calls you from China today it sounds like they are next door. And when
someone calls you from next door in America, it sounds like they are calling
from China!” Those of us who worked in China’s embassy in Zambia often
note that Africa’s cellphone service was better than America’s.
But the Americans are oblivious. They travel abroad so rarely that they
don’t see how far they are falling behind. Which is why we at the embassy
find it funny that Americans are now fighting over how “exceptional” they
are. Once again, we are not making this up. On the front page of The
Washington Post on Monday there was an article noting that Republicans Sarah
Palin and Mike Huckabee are denouncing Obama for denying “American
exceptionalism.” The Americans have replaced working to be exceptional with
talking about how exceptional they still are. They don’t seem to
understand that you can’t declare yourself “exceptional,” only others can
bestow that adjective upon you.
In foreign policy, we see no chance of Obama extricating U.S. forces
from Afghanistan. He knows the Republicans will call him a wimp if he does,
so America will keep hemorrhaging $190 million a day there. Therefore,
America will lack the military means to challenge us anywhere else,
particularly on North Korea, where our lunatic friends continue to yank
America’s chain every six months so that the Americans have to come and beg
us to calm things down. By the time the Americans do get out of Afghanistan
, the Afghans will surely hate them so much that China’s mining companies
already operating there should be able to buy up the rest of Afghanistan’s
rare minerals.
Most of the Republicans just elected to Congress do not believe what their
scientists tell them about man-made climate change. America’s politicians
are mostly lawyers — not engineers or scientists like ours — so they’ll
just say crazy things about science and nobody calls them on it. It’s good.
It means they will not support any bill to spur clean energy innovation,
which is central to our next five-year plan. And this ensures that our
efforts to dominate the wind, solar, nuclear and electric car industries
will not be challenged by America.
Finally, record numbers of U.S. high school students are now studying
Chinese, which should guarantee us a steady supply of cheap labor that
speaks our language here, as we use our $2.3 trillion in reserves to quietly
buy up U.S. factories. In sum, things are going well for China in America.
Thank goodness the Americans can’t read our diplomatic cables.
Embassy Washington.
| M*****8
发帖数: 17722 | 2 果然不出所料，先制造反中情绪，
然后文章狡猾的假借中国观点之名，
一开头就急着夹私货鼓吹攻打伊朗。 | d*****t
发帖数: 7903 | 3 写得挺好，很幽默。一开始以为exceptional是孤立特殊的意思，后来才明白是优秀的
意思。 | q**6
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