台湾当局与尼克松政府关于中美大使级会谈的交涉

多年来,台湾当局始终反对中美大使级会谈。美国为了安抚台湾,每次大使级会谈后都向其通报内容。然而,尼克松当政时期,美方向台方的通报却隐瞒了最敏感的内容,即美方在＂台湾问题＂上的新表述和中美举行高级会谈的事宜。然由于美方的通报涉及与中方讨论＂台湾问题＂及签署支持＂和平共处五项原则＂的联合声明,台湾当局向美方提出了交涉与抗议。蒋介石本人也深受打击,不再信任尼克松。尽管尼克松勉力安抚蒋介石,不断重申美国将坚守对台承诺,但都不能减轻蒋的疑虑。台美关系也因此变得更为复杂而敏感。     

MARKET WATCH

To prevent the economy from further contractions,the Chinese Government promulgated a package of new measures,including increasing export tax rebates for six industries as of April 1.Local governments issued new bonds to finance the construction of public facilities.The central banks of China and Indonesia signed a currency swap agreement to avoid U.S.dollar fluctuations.Despite skepticism about the value of the U.S.dollar,top Chinese officials bought more dollar assets,because they believe no other currenc...     

Competitors or Enemies?

Beijing Review: In your book, you wrote that if both China and the U.S. were to fo-cus on improving their peoples' wellbeing, they would find no contradictions in their long-term strategies. It seems that China has been doing so, but the U.S. seems to be preoccupied with retaining its global domi-nance. What's your take? Kishore Mahbubani: I'm glad you raised a very critical point that I made in my book: the U.S. should not engage in a contest for su-premacy. Yet unfortunately, it would be difficult to change the views of many Americans, because their strategic thinking is still stuck in the 19th and 20th centuries. When you had this zero-sum games between great powers, this was the day when European powers used to fight and go to war with each other. But we no longer live in that world. We now live in a very small, interdependent world where we have many common interests and challenges to deal with.     

Good and Bad Options For Washington

Will Washington lose the future? Yes and no. If the U.S. stays with its reckless and counterproductive policy of hegemony, then yes. If it drops its policy of hegemony and pursues a restrained and prudent course, then the answer might be no.     

美国因素在两岸关系和平发展进程中的影响

美国对两岸和谈的政策立场,是出于维系台海“不统、不独、不战”局面的战略考虑,以保证自己在台海地区的最大战略利益。美国既不希望两岸举行统一谈判又希望两岸达成和平协议的复杂心态,表现在一方面希望两岸进行谈判,降低敌对状态,另一方面又长期对台提供军售,使其增加与大陆相抗衡的资本。此一“双轨政策”对两岸和平关系的构建,有着不同方向的影响,往往起了互相抵消的作用。由于中国政府对台湾当局谋求“法理台独”的强烈反应以及台海紧张局势的升高,美国政府在20世纪90年代后期开始对两岸政治谈判采取较为积极的态度,反对台湾单方面改变现状。美国的上述战略考虑,在反对台湾“独立”、维系两岸和平这一点上,与中国政府的立场有相通之处,客观上为构建两岸关系和平发展框架提供了较好的外部条件。     

Making the Most of China's Future

The Center for China and Globalization released Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future on February 24. At a roundtable inside the center’s Beijing headquarters, various contributors to the book, all leaders of trade groups and multinational corporations(MNCs) in China.     

地缘政治中的中美关系与台湾问题

台湾所处的地理位置决定了它在东亚-西太平洋地区的地缘政治与地缘战略中具有 特殊重要的意义。中美冷战时期,台湾成为美国遏制中国的地缘战略工具。随着中美关系的缓和, 台湾在该地区地缘政治中的重要性大幅下降。冷战结束以来,随着中美关系被美国的战略决策者 定位成战略上的竞争关系,台湾对美国而言的地缘战略价值再次上升。这正是台湾问题具有长期 性、复杂性的根本原因之一。     

关于"沉默权"问题的理性思考

许多案例表明,如果赋予犯罪嫌疑人以沉默权,将给侦查破案造成不利的影响,最早确立沉默权的英国从多年的司法实践中发现沉默权规定不利于查明案情,于1994年对沉默权制度作了重大修改.美国对实施了30多年的"米兰达规则"也提出了疑问,并通过判例规定了"米兰达规则"的若干例外.我国的"坦白从宽,抗拒从严"政策的精髓在于鼓励有罪的犯罪嫌疑人、被告人坦白认罪,允许其进行无罪或罪轻的辩解,但不承认犯罪嫌疑人、被告人有沉默权.赋予犯罪嫌疑人沉默权,其实际意义就是限制警察的讯问权.我们不主张沉默权,并不意味着警察在讯问犯罪嫌疑人时可以不受任何限制.虽然在某些案件中,口供是必不可少的重要证据,但我们必须坚持严禁刑讯逼供或以威胁引诱、欺骗等非法方式逼取口供.刑事诉讼证据较之民事诉讼中的证据要复杂得多,如果再赋予犯罪嫌疑人沉默权,则无异为侦查工作设置障碍,将造成案件久侦难破.     

The False Narrative On Basic Rights

正The U.S. has made human rights a central component of its foreign policy since the Jimmy Carter administration(1977-81). Carter, seeking to improve the international image of the U.S. in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, criticized human rights abuses and the lack of political freedoms in various U.S.-allied dictatorships, including Chile and Nicaragua. Such criticisms were designed not only to enhance the reputation of the U.S. internationally but also to buttress and give credibility to its ongoing ideological warfare against the socialist world.     

Old Tricks,New Tracks

With 102 evidences of U.S. interference from five aspects, Fact Sheet: U.S. Interference in Hong Kong Affairs and Support for Anti-China,Destabilizing Forces, released by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 24, is considered by experts to be a strong response to the U.S. bullying acts.     

Anti-Virus Cooperation Is a Must

正U.S.intelligence agencies failed to reach a conclusion on the origin of the COVID-19 virus within 90days as demanded by President Joe Biden,another solid piece of evidence that the U.S.is politicizing virus origin tracing in a game of deflection.     

A NEW NORMAL IN CHINA-U.S. TIES

Despite rivalry in some fields,the two largest economies can still cooperate The 2020 U.S.election,with a complex and controversial outcome,has seen the dust settle after months of farce and chaos with Joe Biden sworn in as the 46th U.S.president on January 20.However,party polarization still continues in the U.S.and more complicated confrontations between the Democrats and Republicans are anticipated in the future.     

关于“沉默权”问题的理性思考

我国“坦白从宽，抗拒从严”政策的精髓在于鼓励有罪的犯罪嫌疑人、被告人坦白认罪，允许其进行无罪或罪轻的辩解，但不承认犯罪嫌疑人、被告人有沉默权。赋予犯罪嫌疑人沉默权，其实际意义就是限制警察的讯问权。我们不主张沉默权，并不意味着警察在讯问犯罪嫌疑人时可以不受任何限制。虽然在某些案件中，口供是必不可少的重要证据，但我们必须严禁刑讯逼供或以威胁引诱、欺骗等非法方式逼取口供。刑事诉讼证据较之民事诉讼中的证据要复杂得多，如果再赋予犯罪嫌疑人沉默权，则无异于为侦查工作设置障碍，将造成案件久侦难破。     

Trojan Horse Strategy

The U.S. interest in Hong Kong is not for residents' welfare but to prop up its own waning influence The new $900-billion relief package signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on December 27, 2020, designed to supplement the U.S. economy over the impact of the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19), is hardly straightforward in its purpose. It is being utilized as a vehicle for other things, which in fact have little to do with the virus or the U.S economy.     

Provocation Doomed to Fail

Tensions across the Taiwan Straits have recently escalated due to actions on the part of several U.S. politicians as well as some pro-independence parties on the island. On October 26, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed his country's "support" for Taiwan joining the United Nations, a blunt violation of the one-China principle. At the same time, the Taiwan authority is increasingly, and recklessly so, challenging the bottom line of the Central Government in Beijing. In her CNN interview on October 28, Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen confirmed that U.S. troops are training local military forces on the island, making Tsai the first Taiwanese authority to admit to the presence of U.S. military on the island.     

Uncertainty,the Only Certainty for Afghanistan

正Afghanistan is the battlefield where the U.S.army fought the longest overseas.Since U.S.President Joe Biden took office in January,the war's future course has come in the spotlight.According to an agreement signed between the Donald Trump administration and the Taliban in late February 2020,the U.S.     

Global Security Drives Common Development

正Forum highlights importance of international cooperation in post-COVID-19 economic recovery ‘Competition, yes. Enemies, no." This was how Carlos Gutierrez, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, characterized relations between the world's two largest economies during the First Global Economic Development and Security Forum(GEDS) of the Boao Forum for Asia(BFA), which took place in Changsha, Hunan Province, on October 18-20.     

A Due Regard for Multilateralism

A World Trade Organization (WTO) arbitrator on January 26 ruled on the case of the United States—Countervailing Duty Measures on Certain Products From China, determining that China may impose trade retaliations against the U.S. with respect to trade in goods in the amount of$645 million annually given the U.S. failure to comply with a WTO ruling in force. China now urges the U.S. to take immediate action to right its wrongs in trade remedy investigations targeting China.     

Skyrocketing House Prices and Stagnating Wages,What's Wrong?

With the U.S. economy still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and record unemployment, real estate prices continue to skyrocket, pricing thousands of house hunters out of the market in the U.S. and Canada. This may seem counterintuitive for an economy that is still recovering from recession, is yet to reach 2019 GDP levels and saw unemployment peak at just over 14 percent in April, 2020. The last time U.S. home prices raised this quickly, it led to an ensuing crash that brought down the global economy.     

Cooperation and Healthy Competition

There is potential for China and the United States to work together in many areas and improve global governance. Competition is not an obstacle as long as it is healthy. This was the message from a webinar, Reset and Reshape—China-U.S. Relations and Global Governance, held on March 12. Hosted by Beijing Review, the event was attended by experts on China-U.S. relations from both countries. This is an edited excerpt from what they said。