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美国副总统访华川大演讲稿全文(英文版)

作者:stephen    文章来源:互联网    点击数:    更新时间:2011-8-23 【我来说两句

 

In this time of uncertainty in global -- in the global economy, it is all the more important that we take the difficult but necessary steps together and along with our G20 partners continue to sustain the global recovery and create jobs and prosperity.  We’re the two biggest engines in the world to be able to do that.  As I said in May, when I opened the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington, I said, “For many of the world’s most pressing challenges, it is a simple fact that when the United States and China are not at the table, the solution to the problem is less possible.”

But even as we cooperate, the United States and China also will compete, and competition is healthy.  We will compete in global politics and global economics.  And also -- also it is a feature of global politics and economics.  It’s also a feature of human nature to observe others, to consider how they measure up, to strive to be the best, that's good for both of us.  Genuine competition pushes companies, our companies and our people to perform better, and we should reject the misplaced notion of the zero-sum game in which everything one nation achieves somehow comes at the expense of the other.  It is the opposite.

So make no mistake, America not only welcomes this healthy competition; competition is stitched into the very fabric of our society and our economic system.  And while I may be a little biased, I have overwhelming confidence in the capability of the American people to compete on a level playing field with any nation and any peoples in the world.

But for this competition to benefit us both, it must take place on a level playing field with rules that are clear and treat all countries fairly and equally.  Although the United States and China are working hard to get this right, we still face obstacles of doing business in each other’s countries.  That's why I acknowledged on this trip the United States should undertake to make it easier for Chinese business people to obtain visas to travel to the United States.  It takes much too long for that to happen.  That’s not in our interest.

And while we are in the midst -- also it’s the reason why the President once he took office ordered for the first time in decades, ordered -- we’re in the midst of a total reform of our export control system.  Already, we have made thousands of new items available for export to China for exclusive civilian use that were not available before, some of which require a license, while others don't.  And tens of thousands of more items will become available very soon.

That's a significant change in our export policy and a rejection of those voices in America that say we should not export that kind of technology to -- for civilian use in China.  We disagree, and we’re changing.

But it’s also why we are troubled when American investors are prohibited from having wholly owned, fully owned subsidiaries of their own company in many sectors in China and excluded from sectors, entirely excluded from competing in other sectors; restrictions that no other major economy in the world imposes on us or anyone else so broadly.  That's why we have pushed Chinese officials to protect intellectual property rights.  We have welcomed the Chinese State Council’s recent campaign to enforce intellectual property rights, a commitment that President Hu made when he visited and he’s keeping.  But the effort must be strengthened and extended. 

According to the International Trade Commission, American companies lose $48 billion a year and tens of thousands of jobs because of pirated goods and services.  These protections -- intellectual property protections not only benefit the United States and United States workers, United States companies, but I would argue Chinese companies, as well, as they increasingly seek to safeguard their own creations.

You’re here at this great university.  It’s very much in your interest that intellectual property be protected because some of you are the future artists, the future entertainers, the future innovators who will want to be able to have a market for what you do.  But if it can be acquired cheaply and pirated, why would anybody pay you for the same service?

America’s focus on global security, free trade and economic fairness is longstanding.  Since the end of World War II, we’ve helped build an international system that promotes peace and stability, gives all states the opportunity to share in global prosperity and provides rules to protect the basic human rights of all citizens.

China’s tremendous progress in my view can be attributed to the industriousness and talent of the Chinese people, as well as its leadership.  But it was made possible, I respectfully suggest, by an international architecture that promoted stability and prosperity and enables upward mobility for all countries.  I know that many Chinese and probably many of you students believe that your nation will continue on a path of greater prosperity.  I agree that it will.  That is my view, my prediction.  But I also know that some of you are skeptical about America’s future prospects.

With that in view, I would like to suggest that I respectfully disagree with that view and will allay your concerns.  Let me put this in perspective so you can understand why the American people are also confident about their future.  America today is by far the world’s largest economy with a GDP of almost $15 trillion, about two and a half times as large as China’s, the second largest; with a per-capita GDP which is more than $47,000 -- 11 times that of China’s.  I’ve read that some Chinese are concerned about the safety of your investments in American assets.  Please understand, no one cares more about this than we do since Americans own 87 percent of all our financial assets and 69 percent of all our treasury bonds, while China owns 1 percent of our financial assets and 8 percent of our treasury bills respectively.

So our interest is not just to protect Chinese investment.  We have an overarching interest in protecting the investment, while the United States has never defaulted -- and never will default.

I also have confidence in the fundamentals of our economy.  Vice President Xi said it best I think when he told a group of Chinese and American business leaders with whom we met the day  before yesterday, and I quote him, he said, “the U.S. economy is highly resilient and has a strong capacity to repair itself.”  He is right.  I believe America is even better equipped to compete in the economy of the future than it was of the economy of the past.  In the 20th century, the wealth of nation was primarily measured by the abundance of its natural resources, the expanse of its landmass, the size of its population and the potency of its army.  But I believe in the 21st century, the true wealth of a nation will be found in the creative minds of its people and their ability to innovate -- to develop the technologies that will not only spawn new products, but create and awaken entire new industries.  The United States is hardwired for innovation.  It’s part of our DNA from our earliest days.  It has enabled generation after generation of Americans to give life to world-changing ideas -- from the cotton gin, to the airplane, to the microchip, to the Internet, to the world-leading companies like General Electric, Ford, Microsoft and Google.  And I could go on and on.

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