林中斌 部落格 / Blog Chong-Pin Lin

"I Spy"

Economist May 18, 2019 pp.5&6

accessed June 3, 2019

●川普的政府外部顧問白邦瑞說：川普對中國不是大鷹派。台灣、新疆對他而言沒有貿易重要。即使對貿易，他也比他的鷹派顧問如Peter Navarro謹慎。後者主張所有美國公司離開中國。川普常說，他不希望傷害中國的經濟，因為他把中國當作利潤和投資的來源。
●今天的美國流行反中。
"China-bashing" is politically correct, safe, fashionable, or even advantageous these days in the U.S.
● 他們反中是基於國家安全還是個人利益？
How many of those sounding the China threat are motivated by patriotism, and how many by self-interest？
●一位非白人的學者/官員說今日中國對美國的威脅甚於上世紀蘇聯。因為蘇聯也是白人，美蘇的競爭等於家庭裡的口角。而中國是非白人。意涵是中國威脅更危險。她似乎忘了自己的種族背景。
A non-Caucasian scholar/official has pointed out the current China threat to America could be more serious than that of the former Soviet Union as the S.U. was Caucasian while China is not. She seems to neglect her own Afro-American identity.
●"On April 29 the State Department director of policy planning, Kiron Skinner, told a forum.... that there was a need for China strategy equivalent to George Kennan's containment strategy for the Soviet Union. ..Ms Skinner ventured that China is a harder problem. ' The Soviet Union and that competition, in a way it was a fight within the Western family... It's the first time that we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian.' "