Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said in a National Press Club event lastWednesday that the AUKUS pact with the US and the UK was the “worst international decision” by an Australian Labor government since World War I.
當(dāng)天,基廷出席了澳全國記者協(xié)會(huì)(National Press Club of Australia)的一場活動(dòng)。他毫不留情的批評(píng)了澳大利亞政府、美國以及英國政府通過煽動(dòng)“中國威脅論”搞核潛艇的做法。
“China has committed, in the eyes of the United States, the great sin of internationalism. And what is that sin? To develop an economy as big as the United States. That’s the sin,” he said.
Keating said the “great sin” China had committed in the eyes of the west was developing its economy to equal the size of the US, suggesting the Americans “would have preferred” 20% of the world population remains in poverty.
“The Americans will never condone or accept a state as large as them. And that’s what China presents. They would have preferred that China - 20 per cent of humanity - remained in poverty forever. But the fact that China is now an industrial economy larger than the United States, 20% larger… They say’ hang on, this is not in the playbook. This is not in not in the playbook. What an affront.”
“This is what this is about, it’s about the maintenance of the U.S. strategic hegemony in Asia. This is a country which has no land in the metropolitan zone of Asia…There’s no U.S. in Asia. It’s 10,000 kilometersacross the Pacific to the coast of California. So they’re not a metropolitan Asian power but they claim to be and wish to be the primary strategic power in Asia. ”
據(jù)新華社報(bào)道,基廷還在一份書面聲明中說,現(xiàn)在的澳工黨政府為了“盎格魯世界”的安全問題而無視亞洲的安全問題(a contemporary Labor government is shunning security in Asia for security in and within the Anglosphere.)。
"Australia is locking in its next half century in Asia as subordinate to the United States, an Atlantic power. We have been here before: Australia’s international interests subsumed by those of our allies. Defence policy substituting for foreign policy."
基廷指出,澳美英核潛艇合作的結(jié)果就是,澳大利亞花費(fèi)巨大給美英兩國的防務(wù)企業(yè)送去支持?;ㄙM(fèi)數(shù)千億澳元造核潛艇去遏制中國,對(duì)任何一方都沒好處(little benefit to anybody)。
The result is that through AUKUS, Australia is providing expensive support to the UK and US defence companies.
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