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美国副国务卿斯坦伯格关于美中关系设想的演讲 Administrations Vision of the U.S.-China Relationship—Keynote Address at the Center for a New American SecurityJames B. Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of StateWashington, DCSeptember 24, 2009本届美国政府关于美中关系的设想——在新美国安全中心发表主题演讲美国副国务卿詹姆斯·斯坦伯格华盛顿哥伦比亚特区2009年9月24日 Well, thank you, Nate, for that kind introduction.纳特，感谢你的热情介绍。It’s a great pleasure to be back and to be here at this CNAS event. It’s great to see, although I had no doubt about it, that CNAS is still thriving despite the Obama Administration’s best efforts to deprive you of each and every one of your leading lights. And every meeting I go to seems to be populated by so many of the good people – not only Kurt and Michele, obviously, but Jim Miller and so many others who made CNAS so successful, and the really remarkable achievement in such a short period of time that CNAS has become an indispensable feature on the Washington landscape, no mean feat with the number of competitors that you all have out here, including some that I used to work for. And I think that this study that you’re launching today really is a reflection of the continued critical role that CNAS plays in creative and timely work that you do.我很高兴能再次来到这里参加新美国安全中心的这次活动。尽管奥巴马政府不遗余力地挖走了你们的每一位精英人物，但贵中心仍能蓬勃发展，我对此深为赞佩，而且从未产生过怀疑。在我参加的每一次会议上，似乎都能见到贵中心如此众多的博学多才之士——不仅有库尔特和米歇尔，当然还有吉姆·米勒和其他很多帮助贵中心取得如此巨大成功的人士。贵中心在短时间内成为华盛顿地区一个不可或缺的景观，的确是一个可观的成就，尤其是你们的竞争对手如林，我还为其中一些机构工作过，能够脱颖而出实为不易。我认为，今天你们发布的这项研究报告确实体现了贵中心的工作富于创新，善于抓住时机，始终发挥着重要作用。Obviously, as everyone in this audience knows, and we will be seeing a lot of it in the coming week or so, this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which, of course, is part of the reason you scheduled this event now. As we think back on those 60 years, for about half of them – for about 30 – the relationship between the United States was not exactly the best, ranging from hostile at its worst, to nonexistent through much of the time.当然，在座的各位都知道，我们下