美国副总统美中战略与经济对话开幕式讲话Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden To the Opening Session of the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic DialogueDepartment of the InteriorWashington, D.C.May 9, 2011美国副总统拜登在美中战略与经济对话开幕式上的讲话华盛顿哥伦比亚特区国内资源部2011年5月9日Good morning. Thank you. Thank you, all. It’s an honor to welcome back to Washington for the third meeting of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the United States and China, two good friends.早上好。
谢谢你们。
谢谢你们大家。
我荣幸地欢迎两位好朋友再次来到华盛顿，参加美中战略与经济对话第三次会议。
Let me acknowledge the co-chairs at the outset here. Vice Premier Wang and State Counselor Dai, welcome back. I got an opportunity to spend some time with you -- not as much as my colleagues have -- but your trip with President Hu was a great visit, and we got a chance to spend some time together.请允许我首先向两位共同主席致意。
王副总理和戴国务委员，欢迎你们再次到来。
在你们随同胡主席访美期间，我曾有机会与你们见面，虽然与你们见面的时间不如我的一些同事长，但那次访问非常成功，我们也有机会在一起一段时间。
The United States co-chairs are our A-Team, our superstars: Secretary Clinton and Secretary Geithner, two of the best America has to offer, so we expect great things to happen. We expect great things to happen with the four of you.Ladies and gentlemen, we each have a number of important tasks in the days ahead and all designed to continue to guide our relationship to an even better place than it’s alr eady moved.美方的两位共同主席是我们的最佳组合，我们的超级明星：克林顿国务卿和盖特纳部长代表着美国最精英人士，因此，我们预期将会取得重大成果。
我们预期你们四位将会取得重大成果。
Ladies and gentlemen, we each have a number of important tasks in the days ahead and all designed to continue to guide our relationship to an even better place than it’s alr eady moved.女士们、先生们，我们每个人在今后的日子里都肩负着一系列重要任务，目的都是要继续引导我们的关系在已有进展之上更上一层楼。
I also would like to recognize, by the way, Secretary Gary Locke, the President’s choice to be our next ambassador to China. Gary has served with distinction in the Cabinet, as well as before that serving as the governor of the state of Washington. And I know that once the Senate confirms Gary, and I expect that to be quickly, he’ll do an outstanding job in Beijing. (Applause.) There he is.我还要向骆家辉部长致意，他是总统选择的新一任美国驻华大使。
家辉作为内阁成员业绩卓著，在此前担任华盛顿州州长期间亦表现出色。
我知道，一旦参议院确认家辉的任命，而且我估计这会很快，他将在北京作出卓越的工作成绩。
（掌声）他就在这里。
And I’m not going to mention the Trade Representative sitting next to you because I told him if he was able to deliver a deal on -- with Korea, I would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. (Laughter.) He did and I have to. (Laughter.)我不想介绍坐在你们身旁的贸易代表，因为我对他说过，他若能促成同韩国的协定，我就提名他获诺贝尔和平奖。
（笑声）他做到了，所以我也得这么做。
（笑声）Any rate, I’ve made my -- I hate to acknowledge this, gentlemen, but I made my first trip to China as a young man, meeting with Deng Xiaoping in 1979, in April of ’79.I was privileged to be with what I guess I’m now part of, a group of very senior senators at that time. I think we were the first delegation to meet after normalization -- with senators like Jacob Javits of New York, and Frank Church, and a number of other very prominent members.话说回来。
我年轻时第一次访问中国——先生们，我不情愿承认这点——是在1979年4月，是同邓小平会晤。
我当时荣幸地与一些老一辈参议员同行，我想我现在也属他们之列了。
我记得我们是关系正常化之后的第一个代表团，成员包括纽约州参议员雅各布·贾维茨、弗兰克·丘奇以及其他一些非常重要的议员。
And on that trip when we met with then Vice Premier Deng and witnessed the changes that were being initiated, begin ning to spark China’s remarkable -- absolutely remarkable transformation, even back then it was clear that there was -- that great things were happening. And there was also a debate -- there was a debate here in the United States and quitefrankly throughout most of the West as whether a rising China was in the interest of the United States and the wider world. As a young member of a Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said and I believed then what I believe now: That a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large.在那次访问期间，我们会晤了时任副总理的邓小平，并目睹当时启动的种种变化正在开始促发中国引人注目的——绝对是引人注目的转型，即使在当时也已经很清楚——巨变正在发生。
当时还出现了一场辩论，在美国这里，坦率地说，在大部分西方世界，都出现了一场围绕着一个崛起的中国是否符合美国及整个世界的利益的辩论。
作为对外关系委员会的一名年轻成员，我当时写下、表述并且相信我现在所依然相信的：一个崛起的中国是一种积极的、积极的进展，不仅对中国而言，而且对美国和全世界也是如此。
When President Obama and I took office in January of 2009 we understood -- we understood absolutely clearly that our relationship with China would be a key priority. The President and I were determined -- determined to set the relationship on a stable course that could be sustained for decades. Our two countries, now the world’s two largest economies, were bound by ever-growing ties of commerce and investment. We, the United States, we always talk about what we import; we, the United States, exported $110 billion in American goods and services to China last year. 奥巴马总统和我在2009年就职时就理解——极为清楚地理解，我们与中国的关系将是一个关键重点。
