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美国副国务卿麦克黑尔在全美汉语大会上的讲话“Learning Chinese, Thinking Globally”---Speech by Judith A. McHale U.S Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs At the National Chinese Language Conference22 April 2010“学习汉语，培养全球思维”--美国负责公共外交和公共事务的副国务卿朱迪思·麦克黑尔在全美汉语大会上的讲话2010年4月22日 Thank you Vishakha, for your kind introduction. I am honored to join you this evening, and to salute the leadership of the Asia Society and the College Board for convening this conversation on “Learning Chinese and Thinking Globally.” 谢谢，丁文嘉（Vishakha），谢谢你的亲切介绍。今晚，我能与你们共同参加这次活动深感荣幸。我谨向举办“学习汉语，培养全球思维”讨论会的亚洲协会（Asia Society）和大学理事会（College Board）领导人表示敬意。 Last week I met with Ambassador Huntsman, our Ambassador to China. You will not find a more energetic and forceful advocate for this cause. We spent a good deal of our meeting focused precisely on this evening’s topic: promoting Chinese language skills in the United States and enhancing people-to-people ties between the U.S. and China. 上星期，我会见了我国驻华大使洪博培（Huntsman）。为了推动这方面的工作，没有人比他更积极，也没有人比他更得力。我们在会见时花了很大一部分时间讨论今晚的这个题目：促进美国的汉语学习，加强美中两国人民与人民之间的联系。 By coming together here, we have heeded the call of President Barack Obama – America’s first President born and raised in the Pacific – to, in his words, “move the world in a new direction.” 我们在这里举行会议，是为了响应美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马——第一位在太平洋地区出生和成长的美国总统——的号召。用他自己的话来说，就是“推动世界走上新的征途”。 As the President observed in his 2009 address to the UN General Assembly, and I quote, “[w]e must embrace a new era of engagement based on mutual interests and mutual respect, and our work must begin now.” 正如总统在2009年联合国大会上发表的讲话中所说， 让我在这里直接引用他的话，“我们必须迎接一个在共同利益和相互尊重的基础上进行接触的新纪元，我们的工作必须现在开始。” This gathering carries forth this vision, as we join together to build new bridges of understanding and partnership between the United States and China. 这次会议体现了这一设想，因为我们大家正齐心协力建造美中两国相互理解和伙伴关系的新桥梁。 As the President has stated, “Power is not a zero-sum game.” There is no reason to assume that a rising China poses a threat to the United States, or that China’s em