A Special Report on China and America: A Dragon of Many Colours  

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The Economist

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 393 no. 8654 (Oct. 2009), page 15.
Topik: China; America; Relationship; Democracy; Communist

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“OUR policy has succeeded remarkably well: the dragon emerged and joined the world.” So said Robert Zoellick, then deputy secretary of state, in 2005, in a speech suffused with confidence in America’s ability to shape China’s progress. But, said Mr Zoellick, who is now president of the World Bank, China’s behaviour on the world stage left room for improvement: the country needed to become a “responsible stakeholder” in the global community. This anodyne catchphrase helped to redefine the two countries’ relationship. It was, in effect, an admission that America could cohabit with a powerful China. Many in his audience of American businessmen in New York, however, felt uneasy. As Mr Zoellick recalls, they saw his remarks as “too harsh and demanding”. Had he delivered the same speech to the political elite in Washington, DC, he reckons, he might have been criticised for being too soft. But China, despite being a bit unsure at first how to translate the word “stakeholder” (a term for which a standard rendering in Chinese had yet to be found), quickly warmed to the new formulation. It was not then obvious to Chinese officials that America really could accept the rise of China as it was, a one-party system controlled by communists. China saw the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the “colour revolutions” against authoritarian governments in former Soviet-block countries as evidence that America wanted to go it alone as a superpower and was bent on re-creating the world in its own image. The Chinese media accused America of instigating the pro-democracy movements in Georgia, Ukraine and on China’s doorstep in Kyrgyzstan. A young Chinese diplomat proudly told Mr Zoellick that he spent until 4 o’clock the next morning explaining the significance of the New York speech in a cable to Beijing. “The Chinese saw it as just about right,” says Mr Zoellick.

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