如何看待美国共和党媒体人在《大西洋月刊》发文称「中国是条纸龙」？ 第3页

当年我们说帝国主义都是纸老虎。为什么要这么说？因为在当时的中国，的确有很多人是害怕帝国主义的。

如今美国这么说，为什么呢？难道现在美国也有很多人是害怕中国的？

中国有句古话叫“此地无银三百两”，这篇文章不正是说明了美帝对中国有多少焦虑，属于不打自招。

美帝，请问你让你们的小伙伴们如何自处？

他想说中国是纸龙还是子龙，抑或紫龙？

知乎键政圈的平均水平就这？

就这？？？

原文都不看，就凭标题脑补就开始输出情绪？

好歹这是在问如何看待文章啊

连阅读理解都不做的吗？？？

说好的人均做题家的呢？考试功夫都扔了？？？

这文章的中心思想，千言万语就一条

为对华贸易政策松动造势

开篇第一段，就点明了这篇文章本质上是在讨论拜登（美国当局）的对华政策。

具体地说，本篇文章的基本逻辑起点是：拜登有恐华症。

China was mentioned only four times in Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress, but it shadowed almost every line of the speech. “We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century,” Biden said. His aides describe the president as preoccupied with the challenge from China. “It informs his approach to most major topics and the president regularly raises it in meetings, whether he is discussing foreign policy or electric bus batteries,” CNN’s Jeremy Diamondreported. “And aides say Biden believes it is a key test by which historians will judge his presidency.”

而作为一篇共和党立场的文章，这文章采取了语焉不详的“他的助理如是说”（His aides describe……）这种花边小报式的方式引出拜登的立场，并采取了明显的揶揄式描述，把拜登描述成一个“从外交政策到巴士电池”都时刻不忘“中国威胁”的”恐华症患者“。用咱们比较熟悉的说法来说，这明显是竖个靶子打的操作。想一想，为什么作者要竖这个靶子呢？

第三段第一句话，就是一个明显的作者观点引出句：

也许现在是一个听听不同意见的好时候，

然后紧接着提到2018年的书，这意味着，作者持有着与《美国一直南玻万》这本书相同的观点。而复读这本书的观点，就是作者在打恐华症这个靶子。

So this might be a useful moment to hear a contrary voice. In 2018, the Tufts University professor Michael Beckley published a richly detailed study of Chinese military and economic weaknesses. The book is titledUnrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower.

接下来从第四段的 The book……开始，一直到第14段开头的 I spoke with Beckley shortly

中间基本都是在复读《美国一直南玻万》的观点，具体内容着实没啥营养，就是放在英语等级考试里面只配出完形填空的那种。

I spoke with Beckley shortly before Biden’s address to ask whether he had revisited any of his assessments since finishing his book early in Donald Trump’s presidency. He said that he had become more alarmed by China’s aggressive and repressive intentions, but remained as dubious as ever about Chinese capacities.

这段最后一句，总结一下就是The book的作者仍然保持着对中国能力的怀疑观点。

到此为止，作者都是在打恐华症这个靶子，一套王八拳行云流水虎虎生风，打完收工以后，

作者终于在下一段的第一句话，点明了为什么要竖这个靶子：

美国人对中国要更有自信。不自信会产生错误的政策导向，特别是贸易保护主义。

如果这里出道阅读理解题，

看到其中一个选项说：作者认为恐华症导致的贸易保护主义是个错误。因为恐华症本身就是个错误，（因为中国是纸龙）。

这逻辑链条，妥妥的正确答案啊，安排！

Americans need to hear this perspective of confidence. The self-doubt that afflicts so many Americans is pushing this country to wrongheaded policies, most especially trade protectionism, and even outright trade war. Biden had it closer to right back in 2019, when hedismissedoverwrought fears of China: “China’s going to eat our lunch? C’mon, man.” Since then, Biden has been pushed by political necessity to a more confrontational approach—pushed not only by a Trumpified Republican Party, but also by his own party’s turn against trade and markets. One of the swiftest critics of Biden’s “C’mon, man” comment was his then-rival Bernie Sanders, who tweeted that same day:

Since the China trade deal I voted against, America has lost over 3 million manufacturing jobs. It’s wrong to pretend that China isn’t one of our major economic competitors. When we are in the White House we will win that competition by fixing our trade policies.

而真正的杀心藏在引用桑德斯的推特中：美国因为贸易战失去了三百万制造业岗位。

到这里，这文章的观点已经非常明显了。

后面的几段基本上就是在补充论证为什么不用恐华

什么人口啊、债务啊、

老生常谈，但也确实是实话。

但很明显，这位共和党建制派作者，说中国不行并不是为了单纯的内宣，而是攻击拜登当局和同为共和党民粹派的保护主义政策。

最后一段最后一句，再一次点题：

别想歪了，我就是在说贸易的事

“美国的政策的制定者应该更为自信的看待未来，也应该对贸易、市场和目田人民选出的政府发展潜力更有信心。”

This is merely a sample of the gathering troubles facing America’s designated strategic competitor and economic adversary. The United States is hardly trouble-free, but if you had to choose either set of troubles, you’d surely rather face the American list than the Chinese. That’s why Biden said, “C’mon, man,” and why U.S. policy makers should look to the future with a little more confidence and a lot more trust in trade, markets, and the superior potential of a free people under an elected government.

superior potential of a free people under an elected government.

啧啧，标准建制派话术，有那味了吧

综上所述，

这篇文章就是共和党建制派喉舌借着嘲讽拜登恐华症给自由贸易大旗缝补丁的迷惑行为。

至于为什么说这是迷惑行为，

因为一般自由贸易这部经，都是民主党来念的啊。

不妨猜一猜背后的金主爸爸们为什么这么急着干请喇嘛念《法华经》这种事？

可能大概也许是因为美股快要顶不住了罢

不过这一篇在美帝内部充其量也就是在睡王众正盈朝的局面下试图给建制派捞家暗搓搓的从民粹手里偷点贸易利润的遮遮掩掩扭扭捏捏的投石问路之作。

也能引得大洋彼岸的衮衮诸公原地起飞，也是很有意思的现象呢。

大概，这就是标题党的力量罢