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.
当天,基廷出席了澳全国记者协会(National Press Club of Australia)的一场活动。他毫不留情的批评了澳大利亚政府、美国以及英国政府通过煽动“中国威胁论”搞核潜艇的做法。
“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. ”
据新华社报道,基廷还在一份书面声明中说,现在的澳工党政府为了“盎格鲁世界”的安全问题而无视亚洲的安全问题(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,澳美英核潜艇合作的结果就是,澳大利亚花费巨大给美英两国的防务企业送去支持。花费数千亿澳元造核潜艇去遏制中国,对任何一方都没好处(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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