※ [本文转录自 Gossiping 看板] 作者: Yawper (J'en ai marre!) 站内: Gossiping 标题: [新闻] The New York Times: 台湾选出亲中领导人 时间: Sun Mar 23 04:50:33 2008 Taiwan Elects a Leader Who Seeks Closer China Ties 台湾选出亲中领导人 By KEITH BRADSHER Published: March 22, 2008 Translated by Yawper TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan on Saturday elected its first president who had campaigned for closer economic relations with Beijing, paving the way for a considerable lessening of tensions in one of Asia’s oldest flash points. 台湾於星期六选出其第一位以和北京建立更紧密经济关系作为竞选主轴的总统，为 大量减轻这个亚洲最古老导火线的紧张关系铺路。 Ma Ying-jeou, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former Taipei mayor from the Nationalist Party, won by a convincing margin. He prevailed despite a last- minute effort by his opponent, Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party, to warn that the Chinese crackdown in Tibet was a warning of what could also happen to Taiwan if it did not stand up to Beijing. 马英九，一个哈佛毕业律师以及前任国民党籍台北市长，以相当大的差距无争议地 赢得了选战。尽管在选战的最後一刻其民进党籍竞争对手法兰克谢警告，中国镇压西 藏是相当大的警讯，倘若台湾不勇敢站起来抵抗北京，同样的事也可能发生在台湾身 上，但马英九还是以高支持度当选。 With all votes counted, Mr. Ma won 58.45 percent to 41.55 percent, and Mr. Hsieh quickly conceded defeat. Clear skies and warm weather until early evening helped produce a heavy voter turnout of 75.7 percent, which tends to help Nationalist candidates like Mr. Ma. 所有选票开完後，相对於谢先生的41.55%，马先生以58.45%的得票率赢得选战， 谢先生也迅速承认败选。持续到接近傍晚的晴朗温暖天气将投票率提昇至至75.7%， 对国民党籍候选人马先生的选情亦有所帮助。 Both parties’ polls showed an increasingly close race in the final days of campaigning, in contrast with the last polls by news media organizations nearly two weeks ago, which showed Mr. Ma ahead by 20 percent. But in election day interviews, voters echoed Mr. Ma’s stance that closer relations with the mainland and its fast-growing economy represented the island’s best hope of returning to the rapid economic growth it enjoyed until the late 1990s. 相较於新闻媒体组织大约两周前进行的最後一次民调显示马先生领先20个百分点， 双方阵营於选前最後一天进行的民调显示两方差距越来越小。但在选举当天的访谈中 ，选民呼应了马先生的"与大陆及其快速成长经济体建立更紧密关系"主张，显示这个 岛强烈盼望回到以前那段持续到九零年代晚期的高度经济成长。 Jason Lin, a 41-year-old interior designer, said as he left a polling place in Taipei that until this year he had always voted for the Democratic Progressive Party and remained a member. But he crossed party lines to vote for Mr. Ma on Saturday because he was convinced that Taiwan's economic survival depended on closer ties. 杰森林，一个41岁室内设计师，在离开台北一间投票所时表示直到今年之前他一直 都投给民进党且本身也是个民进党员。但这个星期六他跨党派投给了马先生，因为 他确信台湾的经济生存关键在於(与中国)更紧密的关系。 "If we don't get into China's market, we are locked into our own country," he said. 「如果我们不进入中国市场，我们等於锁在自己的国家之中。」他说。 Beijing officials have been wooing the Nationalists for years, even serving as hosts to visits to the mainland over the past three years by those party leaders who are especially eager for eventual political reunification with the mainland, like Lien Chan, the party’s unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2004. 北京当局已经对国民党示好很多年，甚至在过去三年当那些特别希望与大陆终极统一 的国民党领导人们，如连战，此政党的2004败选总统候选人，拜访大陆时当东道主设宴 款待。 Mr. Ma has taken a more cautious approach to the mainland, attending annual vigils for those killed during the Tiananmen Square killings in Beijing in 1989 and denouncing the mainland’s repression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement over the past decade. During the campaign, he ruled out any discussion of political reunification while calling for the introduction of direct, regularly scheduled flights to Shanghai and Beijing and an end to Taiwan’s extensive limits on its companies’ ability to invest on the mainland. 马先生则以更为谨慎小心的方式对待大陆，他参加纪念1989年北京天安门事件罹难者 的年度守夜活动，并谴责大陆对法轮功精神运动过去数十年的镇压。竞选期间，他排除 所有政治统一的讨论，另一方面提倡实施与上海和北京的常态班机直航以及废除对台湾 公司投资大陆的诸多限制。 Chinese government officials had no immediate response to the election results on Saturday evening, but had made little secret of their hope that Mr. Ma would win. 中国政府官员未对星期六傍晚的选举结果立即回应，但从未掩饰他们希望马先生获胜。 "China has a love-hate relationship with Ma — when I visited China last November, they criticized Ma a lot, and then asked me to vote for Ma," said Yen Chen-Shen, a political scientist at National Chengchi University. 「中国对马又爱又恨——我去年十一月访问中国时，他们一直批评马，然後叫我要 投给马。」政治大学政治学者严震生说。 American officials have been deeply frustrated with President Chen Shui- bian, also of the Democratic Progressive Party, and have sought to lessen tensions between Taiwan and the mainland while preserving the political status quo. But the Bush administration has also been irritated by the reluctance of Nationalists in the legislature to vote for purchases of American weapon systems, including systems that President Bush offered for sale in 2001 but that Taiwan still has not purchased. 美国官员已经对民进党籍现任总统陈水扁深深感到灰心，并在维持政治现状的前提下 寻求舒缓台湾与大陆的紧张关系。不过布希政府也被不愿在立法院通过军购案的国民党 激怒，此军购案包括2001年布希总统通过但台湾仍未购买的军售。 Many in Taiwan have preferred to spend money on social programs while relying on the United States military to deter aggression by the mainland, prompting bitter jokes among American military personnel that if mainland military forces ever land on Taiwan, the Taiwanese will fight them to the last American. 在台湾有很多人偏好把钱花在社会福利方案上，并依赖美国军方来威慑大陆的武力 侵犯，这让美国军方人士间流传一些『苦笑话』，像是倘若大陆军队登陆台湾，台湾 人们会奋勇抵抗直到剩下最後一个『美国人』。 Cheng Ta-chen, a Nationalist aide to Mr. Ma on security policy, said that the Nationalists had not been given enough information by President Chen to understand and approve military purchases. 郑大诚，马先生在安全政策上的国民党籍助手，表示陈水扁总统并未给国民党足够 充分的资讯来了解与通过军购案。 Following his inauguration, scheduled for May 20, Mr. Ma will have almost complete political power to pursue his agenda. His party and two tiny affiliated parties together took three-quarters of the legislature in January elections. Nationalists also serve as the magistrates, a position akin to mayor, in 15 of Taiwan’s 25 largest cities. 在五月二十日的总统就职典礼之後，马先生将拥有几乎完全的政治力量来实行他的 政见。他所属的党以及两个很小的附属政党在一月立委选举时总共拿下了四分之三的 立法院席次。在台湾最大的二十五个县市中，国民党籍县市首长，一个类似市长的职位， 就有十五位。 The extent of Nationalist control made some voters nervous on Saturday. 国民党这样大的权力在星期六让一些投票人感到紧张。 Two controversial referendums, calling for Taiwan to apply for membership in the United Nations, also fell well short of passage. 两个要求让台湾加入联合国的备受争议的公投亦未达法定门槛而遭到否决。 Taiwan's referendum law requires a majority of eligible voters to vote on a referendum for it to be valid. Nationalists called for voters not to cast ballots for either initiative and slightly less than 36 percent of eligible voters did so. 台湾的公投法要求必须要有过半合法投票者投公投票，该公投始有效。国民党要求 投票人对於两项提案都不要领票投票，结果显示稍低於三十六个百分比的合法投票者 照作。 With China strongly opposed to United Nations membership for Taiwan, which it regards as a breakaway province, the island’s recent efforts to win membership have failed completely. The United States and China had both denounced as provocative the referendum sponsored by the Democratic Progressive Party, which specifically called for the island to apply as Taiwan and not using its legal name, the Republic of China. 由於中国强烈反对让台湾这个中国认定的分离的一省加入联合国，这个岛最近为了 加入联合国所作的努力已经完全失败。美国与中国均已谴责民进党主办的欲以「台湾」 而非其法定名称「中华民国」为名申请入会的煽动性公投。 The legal name reflects the principle that Taiwan and the mainland still form one China. 这个法定名称反映了台湾与大陆同为一个中国的原则。 Taiwan’s economy grew 5.7 percent last year, but middle-class and working-class incomes have stagnated as an affluent elite has grown prosperous, often from investments on the mainland. 去年台湾经济成长了五点七个百分点，但在富裕的精英阶级从对大陆的投资中大量 获利的同时，中产阶级与蓝领阶级的收入却停滞不前。 Much of the island's manufacturing industry has shifted to the mainland, and hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese have moved there to manage these operations. Most of them are men aged 25 to 45, leaving a dearth of skills and entrepreneurial energy in Taiwan itself. 这个岛的制造工业有很多已经转移到大陆，许许多多的台湾人也已搬过去处理这些 业务。这些人之中大部分是二十五岁到四十五岁间的男性，让台湾本身的技术与创业 能量也随之离开。 --

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