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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

These ties among our people are the life blood of our emerging partnership.  The bottom line is this:  As great nations and as global actors, the United States and China face many of the same challenges and share many of the same responsibilities.  And the more we can work together, the more our people will benefit and -- as I said before it sounds chauvinistic, but the more the world will benefit as a consequence of our cooperation.

President Obama and I will continue the important work of making this partnership even more positive, cooperative and comprehensive in the coming years.  And I hope -- I hope that my visit can serve as a step toward these goals and toward strengthening that bond.

So I thank you all for the honor of being here.  More importantly, I thank you for taking the time to listen.  And with the permission of your president -- they tell me I don't have any time, but I never like to leave a university without at least taking a few questions.  So I hope it’s permissible for me to able to take a few questions from the audience.  Is that permissible, Mr. President.  Is that okay?  All, right.  Thank you.   

As you can see as Vice President, I’m used to always checking with presidents first.  (Laughter.)  I’d be happy to take a couple questions.  My staff is going to get angry if I take too much time.  But, please, there’s microphones in both aisles, I guess.  And I -- I can’t see with the light.  Gentleman all the way in the back waving both hands.  It must be important.

Q    Good morning, Mr. President [sic].  And I’m a -- student from the medical school of Sichuan University.  But my question is about economy first.  And as you know that the China holds about $1 trillion U.S. bonds of treasury bonds.  And that much money -- actually the value is uncertain because of the downgrade of U.S. credit rating.  You seem to have instilled the confidence of the U.S. financial well-being into young people today because I heard you say that the U.S. economy is really resilient.  And -- but words alone cannot ease the mounting concern over the safety of China’s assets.  So we would like to hear more about what measures you’re going to implement to reduce those deficits and redeem the financial strength of America.

THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.

Q    Thank you very much.  (Applause.)

THE VICE PRESIDENT:  It’s a very good question.  One of the multiple rating agencies reduced our rating from AAA to -- plus -- come down one notch.  And that was very disturbing and bothersome to us, and we have to deal with is.

We do have a deficit that I was asked by the President to head up a commission to try to deal with that deficit.  And we made some significant progress, but not the progress we could have made and will make.  The bottom line is we have to deal with two elements of our economy.  One is what we call entitlement programs -- long-term commitments to our people in the area of particularly Medicare.  That is the safety net we have for people once they reach the age of 65 to be able to be assured that they have health care.

And it is not sustainable without some changes in large part because we had what we call a baby boom, which doesn’t sound like much to Chinese -- 40 million people is not a big deal, I know.  (Laughter.)  But adding 40 million people to those who will benefit from the Medicare -- Medicaid payment -- Medicare payments has put the program in a position where changes have to be made.

It’s easy to make those changes, and we had a tentative agreement to do that between the major political leaders of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party and the administration.  But there is a group within the Republican Party that is a very strong voice now that did -- wanted different changes, and so that deal fell through at the very end.

What we ended up doing is setting up a system whereby we did cut by $1.2 trillion upfront, the deficit over the next 10 years.  And we set up a group of senators that have to come up with another $1.2 to $1.7 trillion in savings or automatically there will be cuts that go into effect in January to get those savings.  So the savings will be accomplished.  But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China.  You have no safety net.  Your policy has been one which I fully understand -- I’m not second-guessing -- of one child per family.  The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people.  Not sustainable.

So hopefully we can act in a way on a problem that's much less severe than yours, and maybe we can learn together from how we can do that.

But in the meantime, the concern that we will not make good on the investments that people have made -- in your case up to $1.7 trillion total out of a very large economy is not to worry about.  We could not afford -- we could not afford not to make good on that requirement

 

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