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January 13, 2010

Statement on Google Operations in China

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State
Washington, DC
January 12, 2010

 

We have been briefed by Google on these allegations, which raise very serious concerns and questions. We look to the Chinese government for an explanation. The ability to operate with confidence in cyberspace is critical in a modern society and economy. I will be giving an address next week on the centrality of internet freedom in the 21st century, and we will have further comment on this matter as the facts become clear.
via state.gov

Is it the ultimatum Hillary Clinton giving to China regarding Google's "we could pull the plug in China" claim?

對於Google在中國碰到的狀況，美國政府顯然站在Google這邊（相對於通常在商務糾紛方面盡量保持中立的態度而言），接下來就看下星期中國政府會說些什麼了。

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December 29, 2009

Not So Dire Straits

As a consensus emerges in Taiwan on establishing closer relations with China, the thaw is calling into question the United States' deeply ambiguous policy, which is supposed to serve both Taiwan's interests (by allowing it to retain its autonomy) and the United States' own (by guarding against an expansionist China). Washington now faces a stark choice: continue pursuing a militarized realist approach -- using Taiwan to balance the power of a rising China -- or follow an alternative liberal logic that seeks to promote long-term peace through closer economic, social, and political ties between Taiwan and China.
via foreignaffairs.com

This is in fact a manifest of US's attitude to remain as a global superpower while keeping tension with another "expansionist" nation. The thing is that Taiwan is only a counterweight in the pendulum game, and our leader and his lieutenants haven't truly realized that; at least they don't know how to play the survival game in a smarter way.

Foreign Affairs.com的這篇文章，已經很露骨的說出了美國在最近台灣親中趨勢之中的兩難問題：在繼續保持世界強權地位之餘，要利用台灣作為籌碼，繼續對抗積極擴張勢力的中國、還是在台灣傾中的過程中獲取利益。

然而，我們的領導者似乎不清楚目前台灣在美國這個「鐘擺」政策中的微妙地位，或者至少他不知道如何在這個縫隙之中以更聰明的方式生存、甚至以遊走兩大強權遊戲規則的方式來獲利。

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