纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英As China Tries to Present a Friendlier Image a New Face Emerges
February 19, 2024 2 min 310 words
这篇报道揭示了中国试图在国际舞台上展现更友好形象的努力，却出现了一种新的面貌。中国似乎在改变外交战略，但新崛起的形象是否真实仍然值得怀疑。文章指出，国内外观察者对这一变化存在疑虑，担心其是否只是表面的改变，而实质性政策仍然保持不变。这提醒我们要保持审慎，不仅关注形象的改变，更要关注实质性的政策调整。中国需要通过实际行动展示友好态度，而不仅仅是通过宣传渲染。这也是国际社会对中国新面孔是否具有可信度的关键问题。在这个信息时代，真实性和透明度至关重要，国际社会将密切关注中国是否能够践行所展现的新形象。
Faced with declining foreign investment at home, China has sought to soften its image in the United States and Europe and make nice with some of its neighbors. One Communist Party official has played an unusually prominent role in the shift in tone.
In New York, he told an audience of scholars and businesspeople that China did not seek to rewrite the United States-led global order. In Paris, he said that China’s modernization would benefit Europe and the world. In Beijing, he told the ambassador of India, a regional rival, that China hoped relations would “return to a healthy and stable” track.
The official, Liu Jianchao, heads the Communist Party’s diplomatic arm, a body that promotes the party’s ideology and influence abroad. His recent engagements suggest to analysts, however, that he has been auditioning for the role of China’s next foreign minister.
For Beijing, appointing a new foreign minister, potentially as soon as in March during a legislative meeting, would help steady the country’s diplomatic apparatus after a dramatic shake-up last year.
In July, the party abruptly ousted Qin Gang, then the foreign minister, amid speculation that he had been in a romantic relationship that potentially compromised national security. Mr. Qin’s predecessor, Wang Yi, was reappointed to the post; Mr. Wang is also the director of the party’s commission on foreign affairs, a position usually held by a different person than the foreign minister.