纽约时报中文网 - 中英对照版-中英特鲁多否认中国干预加拿大选举令其政党获益

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada pushed back on Wednesday against intelligence reports indicating that his Liberal Party may have benefited from Chinese interference in Canadian elections, saying that he had been consistently tough against an increasingly aggressive China.

周三，加拿大总理特鲁多驳斥了有关他的自由党可能受益于中国干预加拿大选举的情报报告，称他对日益咄咄逼人的中国一贯采取强硬态度。

Testifying in Ottawa at a federal inquiry into foreign interference, Mr. Trudeau said that his government did not have enough information to take action against reported acts of Chinese interference during the general elections of 2019 and 2021. He insisted that the votes had been “free and fair.”

特鲁多在渥太华为外国干预联邦调查作证时表示，他的政府没有足够的信息对据报告在2019年和2021年大选期间的中国干预采取行动。他坚称相关选举是“自由和公正的”。

While he said that foreign interference was a genuine threat, Mr. Trudeau also downplayed intelligence reports describing how Chinese government officials had sought to meddle in the selection of a Liberal member of Parliament in Toronto.

尽管他表示外国干预是一个真正的威胁，但也淡化了有关中国官员试图干预多伦多自由党议员选举的情报报告。

Intelligence reports made public described how, in the 2021 election, China and its proxies acted against the main opposition Conservative Party, which they believed to be against Chinese interests. Instead, a report said, Chinese officials preferred to have Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals win and hold power as a minority government.

公开情报报告描述称，2021年的选举中，中国及其代理人针对主要反对党保守党采取行动的方式，中方认为保守党有损中国的利益。一份报告则称，中国官员更希望特鲁多的自由党获胜，作为少数党政府掌权。

“It would just seem very improbable that the Chinese government itself would have a preference in the election,” Mr. Trudeau said.

“中国政府本身似乎不太可能在选举中有自己的偏好，”特鲁多说。

Mr. Trudeau’s much-anticipated testimony was the highlight of this round of public hearings, which over the past three weeks have featured his closest aides, intelligence officials and political party leaders as well as politicians believed to have been targets or beneficiaries of Chinese state interference.

在过去三周，特鲁多最亲密的助手、情报官员和政党领导人，以及据信是中国政府干预目标或受益者的政界人士都在公开听证会上作证，特鲁多备受期待的证词是本轮听证会的重点。

The hearings, through the release of intelligence reports and the sworn testimonies of witnesses, have painted a picture of how rising foreign powers like China and India have tried to advance their interests by increasingly tapping into diaspora communities and exploiting Canada’s democratic institutions.

听证会通过公布情报报告和证人的宣誓证词，描绘出中国和印度等新兴大国如何日益试图利用移民社区和加拿大的民主制度来推进自己的利益。

They have also raised fresh questions about the Trudeau government’s handling of foreign interference. At the hearings, his top aides continued to downplay the intelligence that was available during key periods of the 2019 and 2021 general elections. But declassified intelligence reports, even in redacted form, show precise real-time information on races in Vancouver and Toronto at the heart of Chinese interference activities.

他们还对特鲁多政府处理外国干涉的方式提出了新的质疑。在听证会上，他的高级助手继续淡化2019年和2021年大选关键时期可获得的情报。但即使是经过遮盖处理，解密的情报报告也显示了关于温哥华和多伦多竞选的精确实时信息，而这正是中国干预活动的核心。

Mr. Trudeau called the inquiry only last September after an extraordinary series of leaks to Canadian news outlets of intelligence reports on Chinese interference.

去年9月，在加拿大新闻媒体曝出一系列有关中国干涉非同寻常的情报报告后，特鲁多才下令展开调查。

A national security official wrote anonymously in The Globe and Mail, which obtained the reports along with the Global News television network, that he had leaked the documents because government officials were not taking the threat of foreign interference seriously enough.

一名国家安全官员在《环球邮报》上匿名撰文，他泄露这些文件，是因为政府官员没有足够重视外国干涉的威胁。《环球邮报》与环球新闻电视台一起获得了这些报告。

“We know that the P.R.C. clandestinely and deceptively interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 general elections,” an intelligence report made public said in February 2023, referring to the People’s Republic of China.

“我们知道，中华人民共和国秘密地、欺骗性地干预了2019年和2021年的大选，”2023年2月公布的一份情报报告说。

According to the report, which was prepared for the prime minister’s office, Canada’s intelligence agency said that between June 2018 and December 2022, it provided 34 briefings on foreign interference to ministers and top government officials, including twice to Mr. Trudeau.

根据这份为总理办公室准备的报告，加拿大情报机构表示，在2018年6月至2022年12月期间，该机构向部长和政府高级官员提供了34份关于外国干涉的简报，其中包括两次向特鲁多提供简报。

Most of the hearings have focused on China, whose “activities are sophisticated, pervasive, persistent and directed against all levels of government and civil society across the country,” another report said.

另一份报告称，听证会大部分集中在中国问题上，其“活动复杂、普遍、持续，针对全国各级政府和公民社会”。

The Chinese Embassy in Canada has denied any interference in Canadian politics.

中国驻加拿大大使馆否认干涉加拿大政治。

China’s interference efforts in Canada as well as in other countries have increased since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2013, experts say.

专家称，自习近平主席2013年上台以来，中国在加拿大和其他国家的干预力度不断加大。

“These foreign interference efforts are becoming increasingly embedded in community-based networks that link federal, provincial and municipal politics in key Canadian cities,” another intelligence report said, adding that these “networks are potential tools of leverage against Canadian political officials.”

“这些外国干预努力正日益嵌入以社区为基础的网络，而这些网络将加拿大主要城市的联邦、省和市级政治联系在一起，”另一份情报报告称。报告还说，这些“网络是针对加拿大政治官员的潜在影响工具”。

A 2022 report said that Chinese “missions in Canada continue to learn from their experiences across the country and refine their approach to” foreign interference activity.

2022年的一份报告称，中国“在加拿大的使团继续从全国各地的经验中学习，并完善其应对外国干涉活动的方法”。

In the 2019 election, Chinese government officials most likely transferred 250,000 Canadian dollars to proxies to help in the election of 11 candidates, according to one intelligence report. The Chinese state believed that the candidates “would reinforce China’s overall interests in Canada,” according to another report.

根据一份情报报告，在2019年的选举中，中国政府官员很可能向代理人转移了25万加元，来帮助11名候选人当选。另一份报告称，中国政府认为这些候选人“将加强中国在加拿大的整体利益”。

Chinese government officials “likely manipulated” a 2019 race in a Toronto district, according to another report. The Liberal candidate, Han Dong, acknowledged at the hearing last week that foreign high school students from China were bused in to elect him at a party vote, but he said he did not know who had chartered the bus.

另一份报告称，中国政府官员“可能操纵了”2019年多伦多地区的一场竞选。自由党候选人董晗鹏在上周的听证会上承认，在一次党内投票中，有来自中国的高中留学生被大巴送来给他投票，但他说，他不知道是谁租了这辆大巴。

After Mr. Trudeau was first elected in 2015, he pushed for a free-trade agreement with China as part of an overall policy to build friendly ties with Beijing. He initially dismissed security warnings, including about allowing the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies to work in Canada’s wireless networks.

2015年首次当选后，特鲁多推动了与中国的自由贸易协定，作为与北京建立友好关系的总体政策的一部分。他最初对安全警告不予理会，这些警告包括有关允许中国电信企业华为进入加拿大无线网络的信息。

But relations turned hostile when Canada arrested Huawei’s chief financial officer on a United States extradition request, leading Beijing to detain two Canadians in China in retaliation. In 2022, Mr. Trudeau’s government formally shifted its policy toward China, calling it “an increasingly disruptive global power.”

但当加拿大应美国的引渡请求逮捕华为首席财务官后，中加关系变得敌对，导致北京在中国拘留了两名加拿大人作为报复。2022年，特鲁多政府正式改变了对华政策，称中国是“日益具有破坏性的全球大国”。

Still, the main opposition Conservative Party has taken a harder stance against China, pushing legislation condemning China on its human rights record and criticizing its security crackdown in Hong Kong.

尽管如此，主要反对党保守党对中国采取了更强硬的立场，推动立法谴责中国的人权记录，并批评中国在香港的安全镇压。

In the 2021 election, China’s “activities were almost certainly motivated by a perception that the Conservative Party of Canada was promoting a platform that was perceived to be anti-P.R.C.,” the February 2023 report said.

2023年2月的报告称，在2021年的选举中，“几乎可以肯定，中国活动的动机是认为加拿大保守党正在推行一个被视为反中华人民共和国的纲领。”

One targeted candidate was a Vancouver lawmaker, Kenny Chiu, a Chinese Canadian who had been the main proponent of a bill to create a registry of foreign agents in Canada. Australia has established such a registry to curb Chinese foreign interference, and a Canadian intelligence report in 2021 stated that Canada’s lack of a registry “makes it impossible to legally designate” individuals or groups working on behalf of China as foreign agents.

其中一个目标候选人是温哥华议员赵锦荣，他是一名加拿大华裔，曾是在加拿大建立外国代理人登记法案的主要支持者。澳大利亚已经建立了这样的登记，以遏制中国的外国干涉，加拿大2021年的一份情报报告称，加拿大缺乏这样的登记，“因此无法合法地指定“代表中国工作的个人或团体为外国代理人”。

After an onslaught of untraceable attacks on the Chinese-owned networking app WeChat, which labeled Mr. Chiu as a traitor to his community and his bill as a racist assault on all Chinese Canadians, Mr. Chiu unexpectedly lost his bid for re-election to Parliament in 2021.

在中国人拥有的微信上出现了无法追踪的猛烈攻击，将赵锦荣称为社区的叛徒，将他的法案称为对所有加拿大华人的种族主义攻击。在此之后，赵锦荣在2021年竞选连任国会议员时意外失利。

A few months later, an intelligence report noted that “P.R.C. officials could be emboldened in their electoral interference efforts by the 2021 defeat” of Mr. Chiu.

几个月后，一份情报报告指出，“2021年赵先生落选可能会使中国官员更加大胆地进行选举干预活动。”

The inquiry commission, which is led by Marie-Josée Hogue, a Court of Appeal justice from Quebec, is required to issue a preliminary report in May. The commission is expected to produce a final report on how to tackle foreign interference after holding another round of public hearings next fall.

调查委员会由魁北克上诉法院法官玛丽-若泽·霍格领导，被要求在5月发布一份初步报告。预计该委员会将在明年秋天举行另一轮公开听证会后，就如何应对外国干涉发表一份最终报告。