美国国务卿克林顿就全球健康行动计划发表讲话

第一篇：美国国务卿克林顿就全球健康行动计划发表讲话

美国国务卿克林顿就全球健康行动计划发表讲话

2010-08-19 01:39:27| 全球健康行动计划：美国在世界卫生领域下一阶段的领导作用

国务卿希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Rodham Clinton）约翰霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院（SAIS）

华盛顿哥伦比亚特区 2010年8月16日

这就是我今天要向你们阐述的使命：奥巴马政府如何进一步履行我国长期以来对全球卫生领域所作的承诺，使更多地方有更多的人获得挽救生命的疾病预防、治疗和护理。

这是美国在当今世界发挥领导作用的一个标志，也是我时刻牵挂的一个问题。过去20年来，我有幸代表我们国家访问过世界上很多地方，我所结识的许许多多的人都亲身体验到成功的健康计划所能发挥的巨大作用。

……历史上没有任何国家为改善全球健康状况作出了更多的努力。在取得当代某些最重大的卫生成就方面，美国走在世界的最前列。天花困扰人类达数千年之久，直至1960和1970年代，我们通过世界卫生组织（World Health Organization）一系列根除天花的行动为这种疾病的绝迹作出了贡献。“扩大免疫规划”（Expanded Program on Immunization）使全世界将近80%的儿童接种了挽救生命的疫苗，而在36年前这项规划刚启动时，仅有不到5%的儿童接种疫苗，此项成就部分归功于美国的资助和支持。美国参与倡导的推广微量营养素的全球性努力保护了千百万幼童和孕妇的健康。

我们在抗击被忽视的热带疾病的斗争中也在全球处于领先地位，仅在过去四年中就为5900万热带疾病患者提供了治疗。我们每年都参与覆盖5000多万人的疟疾防治工作，我们提供将近60%——全世界艾滋病病毒和艾滋病防治捐助资金的60%。在全世界为卫生领域的发展援助提供的资金中，有总共40%的资金来自美国。

毫无疑问，这不是民主党或共和党的问题，而是一个牵动美国人的爱心、超越党派政治的问题。我国之所以能在卫生领域发挥领导作用，是因为得到了两党一致的强有力的支持。我赞赏布什政府在全球卫生领域所做的开拓性工作，特别是提出了总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划（President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief）和总统防治疟疾行动计划（President's Malaria Initiative）这两项具有代表性的卫生计划。……

现在，除了政府，美国各民间组织也正在作出卓越的贡献。例如，比尔和梅林达盖茨基金会（Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)捐赠了数十亿美元重新开展大规模免疫活动，发现预防和治疗疾病的新疫苗及其他手段；卡特中心（Carter Center)领导了消灭危害健康的麦地那龙线虫病的全球运动；克林顿基金会（Clinton Foundation)与制药公司合作，让数百万民众能够获得可负担的艾滋药品；还有美国各地的数百个其他组织，它们用创新方法为世界各地的人民提供拯救生命和改善生活的保健服务。

教会和宗教团体也带头为急需的人们提供治疗，包括派出志愿医务工作者，他们在那些缺医少药的地方为民众服务，有时冒着生命危险。就在两个星期前，来自美国和其他几个国家的志愿医务工作者在阿富汗被杀害，当时他们正在为乡村地区提供巡回医疗服务，治疗眼疾，并开办一个牙科诊所。这对他们的家庭是一个巨大的损失，对世界是一个巨大的损失，对那些已经受益于或即将受益于他们的帮助的人也是一个巨大的损失。

此类事件提醒我们，加强全球卫生工作不仅是我国政府坚定不移的首要任务，而且是许多美国公民和我们整个民族的首要任务。这是我们国家的一项重要历史纪录，一项经常被忽略或没有引起充分关注的纪录。

今天，我代表奥巴马政府，向大家通报一下美国全球卫生工作的下一个篇章。它被称为“全球健康行动计划”，简称GHI。它代表着一种新方法，以新思维为指导，并设定了新的目标：增强我们现有的卫生工作计划，在此基础上帮助其他国家发展改善本国人民健康的能力，从而拯救尽可能多的生命。

*我们投资于全球卫生事业，为的是加强脆弱或社会机制衰退的国家。我们已经看到艾滋病夺去了农民、教师、军人、医务工作者和其他专业人士的生命，对国家产生了毁灭性影响，数百万孤儿和弱势儿童无人照料，他们的需求远不是任何政府机构可以满足的。由于艾滋病的破坏性影响，克林顿政府不仅把它归类为一项健康威胁，而且视作对国家安全的威胁，后来的国务卿科林·鲍威尔（Colin Powell)也持同样的立场。研究国家安全的智库“战略和国际问题研究中心”（Center for Strategic and International Studies)发起成立了“全球卫生策略委员会”（Commission on Smart Global Health Policy)。该委员会的共同主席为“世界援助和救援合作组织”（CARE)的海林·盖尔(Helene Gayle)和退休海军上将威廉·法伦(William J.Fallon)，其目的是为全球卫生工作寻找新战略，因为我们相信这将有助于我们建立一个更安全、更稳定的世界。

我们投资于全球卫生事业，为的是促进社会与经济进步，并支持能够帮助我们解决地区与全球卫生问题的伙伴们进行能力建设。我们看到，在许多地方，遭受疾病折磨的人民在许多不同的层次上挣扎：通常贫困范围很广，基础设施不完善，食品生产能力有限，儿童入学率低。本来可以为家庭和国家的进步发挥主导作用的人们现在因疾病、贫困、缺少机会而无力自救。

我们投资于全球卫生事业，为的是保护我们的国家安全。举例来说，每天有成千上万的人跨越大陆飞行，从而为我们紧密相连的世界带来疾病传播的威胁，我们需要一个全面有效的全球系统来追踪卫生数据、监控疾病威胁和协调应对措施。近年来，由于非典（SARS）和H1N1流感病毒的传播，人们对于这样一个系统的必要性有了充分的认识。如果在疾病刚刚出现时就加以遏制，阻止大规模爆发，使之不至演变成全球性威胁，就能够节省大量人力物力，取得事半功倍的效果。但是，这在那些医疗服务和公共卫生服务不足或根本不存在的地方很难做到。

我们把投资于全球卫生事业作为公共外交的一种方式。对于世界上的亿万民众，在美国帮助下获得预防、治疗或护理是他们了解我们国家和人民的主要途径，这种体验可能发生巨大的作用。就传播我们的价值观而言，让人们有可能健康长寿或帮助他们的孩子免受疾病的威胁，其效果不亚于任何国事访问或战略对话。

我们把投资于全球卫生事业作为明确、直接地表达爱心的一种方式。每一年，数百万人因不能获得简单的救助而丧生，如蚊帐或维生素强化食品，或口服补液治疗。作为一个国家和一个民族，我们绝对不能接受那种毫无意义的死亡，我们的基因里没有这种成分。因此，美国人在调查中经常表示支持把我们缴纳的税款用于全球卫生项目——不是因为它能给我们自己带来好处，而是因为这些钱可以并且正在被用于为他人谋福利。很少有其他投资与我们全部的价值观如此吻合，也很少有其他投资更具有合理性。全球卫生是一个突出的例子，它说明了从战略高度使用我们的资源能够对人民、社区和国家产生立竿见影和经久不衰的影响。

世界各地有许许多多对生命和生计构成威胁的疾病与营养缺乏症，而我们的资源却是有限的。因此，我们必须针对最危险的威胁，从战略高度作出有事实依据的决策，以确保我们的投资——这些资金毕竟来自美国纳税人——取得实效。我们还必须注重长远目标——不仅努力满足今天的迫切需要，而且为明天和下一代人能有更好的健康打下基础。

这一思想贯穿于奥巴马总统去年发起的全球健康行动计划的各个方面。美国正在进行630亿美元的投资，首先用于保持和加强我们现有的卫生项目，其次，通过与政府、组织、公民社会团体和个人协作，把这些项目提升到更高水平，从而扩大我们在公共卫生领域预期能够取得的进展。

我们正在把重点从解决具体问题转向造福于人民，即更全面地考虑他们的生存状况，确保他们能够在一生中获得最需要的保健服务。全球健康行动计划的根本目的是，由受援国发挥主导作用，通过将各项卫生计划整合为一个统一、协调、可持续的保健系统来解决问题。基于对总统艾滋病紧急救援计划、总统防治疟疾行动计划、母婴保健、计划生育、被忽视的热带疾病和其他关键的健康领域所作的投资，并基于疾病控制中心以及其他联邦政府部门的工作，通过改进提供卫生服务的整体环境来扩大效果。这样，我们的投资能够产生更大的影响，病人能够得到更多和更好的保健服务，从而能够更健康地生活。

根据全球健康行动计划，我们将增加经费，继续扩大总统艾滋病紧急救援计划的成果。2008年，总统艾滋病紧急救援计划的经费为50亿美元。奥巴马总统已经为2011年提出57亿美元的申请，这是单一国家为防治全球艾滋病所做的最大一笔投资。我们正在提高我们的治疗目标。通过全球健康行动计划，我们力争为世界各地400多万人的治疗提供直接支持——这个数目是在实施总统艾滋病紧急救援计划的头五年间接受治疗人数的两倍多。

我们正在提高我们的护理目标，计划为1200多万人提供护理，包括500万名孤儿和弱势儿童。

我们正在提高我们的预防目标，通过全球健康行动计划，我们的目标是预防1200万例艾滋病毒感染。

我们正在加强对总统防治疟疾行动计划的支持，目标是使4.5亿人口的疟疾负担减轻50%。

就结核病而言，我们希望通过增加治疗机会挽救130万人的性命。

我们也在加强计划生育和母婴保健工作，这也是美国可以而且必须发挥领导作用的领域。

我们现在需要为日后取得更大进展打好基础，包括解决……系统性问题，以及与伙伴国协作，铲除危害其人民健康的最根深蒂固的障碍……

首先，我们会和其他国家一起创建并实施它们根据自己的独特需要和现有能力而主导设计的健康战略，我们正在帮助这些国家培养能力，以便它们长期管理、监督、协调、?行健康计划。其次，我们侧重于妇女和女童的需求和贡献。由于专业保健人员没有注意到她们的苦难或了解其面临的问题，她们仍然经常受到忽略，没有获得足够的服务。

第三，我们正在完善衡量和评估自身影响的方式。这包括将重点从“投入”转移至“成果和影响”──例如，不是根据我们分发了多少顶蚊帐来衡量成功，而是要了解有多少人因为正确使用蚊帐而实际避免了疟疾──这种评估提供更全面的信息，它需要我们作出投资，改进我们收集、分析和共享数据的方式。

第四，我们正在投资于创新发明，重点在于开发工具，在我们工作的社区中帮助诊断、预防和治愈疾病。这些地区通常地处偏远，资源贫乏。

第五，我们正在改进协调与整合。

第六，我们与现有伙伴合作，并且寻找新伙伴。我们希望和其他捐助国及多边组织协同努力，其中许多国家和组织正在增进全球健康方面做出卓越的贡献。

可是，我们最重要的协作对象将是我们的伙伴国，我们也会继续呼吁它们对这项努力作出最大的承诺，因为它们的贡献最终将决定我们能否达到目标，成功地为世界上更多人创建统一、协调、可持续的保健系统

第二篇：美国国务卿克林顿2010年三八国际妇女节讲话

March 8th is International Women’s Day—a day to reflect on the progress the world has made in advancing women’s rights and to recognize what work remains to be done.三月八日是国际妇女节。在这个日子，我们回顾全世界在促进妇女权利方面取得的进展，并确定有待完成的工作。

This year marks an anniversary very close to my heart.Fifteen years ago, along with women and men from around the world I attended the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.The message from that conference rang loudly and clearly, and still echoes across cultures and continents: Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.今年的三八国际妇女节是一个是我倍感亲切的周年纪念日。15年前，我与来自全世界的男女代表一起出席了在北京召开的联合国第四届世界妇女大会。那次会议发出了一个明确无误的最强音，至今仍在各种文化中和各大洲发出回响：人权即是妇女的权利，妇女的权利即是人权。

One hundred and eighty-nine countries represented at Beijing adopted a Platform for Action that pledged to increase women’s access to education, healthcare, jobs, and credit, and to protect their right to live free from violence.We have made great progress, but there is a long way to go.Women are still the majority of the world’s poor, unhealthy, underfed, and uneducated.They rarely cause violent conflicts but too often bear their consequences.Women are absent from negotiations about peace and security to end those conflicts.Their voices simply are not being heard.在北京出席会议的189个国家的代表通过了一项《行动纲领》，保证要增加妇女获得教育、医疗、就业和信贷的机会，并保护她们在生活中免遭暴力的权利。我们已经取得巨大的进展，但仍然有很长的路要走。在世界上的贫穷、患病、挨饿和未受过教育人群中，妇女仍然占大多数。她们中很少有人引起暴力冲突，但却经常承担暴力冲突带来的各种后果。在为结束这些冲突而举行的有关和平与安全问题的各种协商中，没有妇女参加。没有人听取她们的意见。

Today, the United States is making women a cornerstone of foreign policy because we think it’s the right thing to do, but we also believe it’s the smart thing to do as well.Investing in the potential of the world’s women and girls is one of the surest ways to achieve global economic progress, political stability, and greater prosperity for women — and men — the world over.今天，美国正在把妇女工作作为外交政策的基石，因为我们认为这是正确之举，但我们同时也认为这是智慧之举。通过投资发挥世界女性的潜力是实现全球经济发展、政治稳定和全世界妇女及男性带来更大繁荣的最有保障的方式之一。

So on this International Women’s Day, let us rededicate ourselves to advancing and protecting the rights of women and girls, and to join together to ensure that no one is left behind in the 21st century.因此，值此国际妇女节之际，让我们继续献身于促进与保护妇女和女童的权利，团结一致，以确保在21世纪没有任何人掉队。

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March 8th is International Women’s Day—a day to reflect on the progress the world has made in advancing women’s rights, and to recognize what work remains to be done.三月八日是国际妇女节。在这个日子，我们回顾全世界在促进妇女权利方面取得的进展，并确定有待完成的工作。

This year marks an anniversary very close to my heart.Fifteen years ago, along with women and men from around the world I attended the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.The message from that conference rang loudly and clearly, and still echoes across cultures and continents: Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.今年的三八国际妇女节是一个是我倍感亲切的周年纪念日。15年前，我与来自全世界的男女代表一起出席了在北京召开的联合国第四届世界妇女大会。那次会议发出了一个明确无误的最强音，至今仍在各种文化中和各大洲发出回响：人权即是妇女的权利，妇女的权利即是人权。

One hundred and eighty-nine countries represented at Beijing adopted a Platform for Action that pledged to increase women’s access to education, healthcare, jobs, and credit, and to protect their right to live free from violence.We have made great progress, but there is a long way to go.Women are still the majority of the world’s poor, unhealthy, underfed, and uneducated.They rarely cause violent conflicts but too often bear their consequences.Women are absent from negotiations about peace and security to end those conflicts.Their voices simply are not being heard.在北京出席会议的189个国家的代表通过了一项《行动纲领》，保证要增加妇女获得教育、医疗、就业和信贷的机会，并保护她们在生活中免遭暴力的权利。我们已经取得巨大的进展，但仍然有很长的路要走。在世界上的贫穷、患病、挨饿和未受过教育人群中，妇女仍然占大多数。她们中很少有人引起暴力冲突，但却经常承担暴力冲突带来的各种后果。在为结束这些冲突而举行的有关和平与安全问题的各种协商中，没有妇女参加。没有人听取她们的意见。

Today, the United States is making women a cornerstone of foreign policy because we think it’s the right thing to do, but we also believe it’s the smart thing to do as well.Investing in the potential of the world’s women and girls is one of the surest ways to achieve global economic progress, political stability, and greater prosperity for women — and men — the world over.今天，美国正在把妇女工作作为外交政策的基石，因为我们认为这是正确之举，但我们同时也认为这是智慧之举。通过投资发挥世界女性的潜力是实现全球经济发展、政治稳定和全世界妇女及男性带来更大繁荣的最有保障的方式之一。

So on this International Women’s Day, let us rededicate ourselves to advancing and protecting the rights of women and girls, and to join together to ensure that no one is left behind in the 21st century.因此，值此国际妇女节之际，让我们继续献身于促进与保护妇女和女童的权利，团结一致，以确保在21世纪没有任何人掉队。

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第四篇：美国国务卿希拉里.克林顿2010年三八国际妇女节讲话

美国国务卿希拉里.克林顿2010年三八国际妇女节讲话

U.S.Secretary of State Bill Clinton speech, 2010 March Eighth International Women's Day 美国国务卿克林顿2010年三八国际妇女节讲话

March 8th is International Women’s Day—a day to reflect on the progress the world has made in advancing women’s rights, and to recognize what work remains to be done.三月八日是国际妇女节。在这个日子，我们回顾全世界在促进妇女权利方面取得的进展，并确定有待完成的工作。

This year marks an anniversary very close to my heart.Fifteen years ago, along with women and men from around the world I attended the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.The message from that conference rang loudly and clearly, and still echoes across cultures and continents: Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.今年的三八国际妇女节是一个是我倍感亲切的周年纪念日。15年前，我与来自全世界的男女代表一起出席了在北京召开的联合国第四届世界妇女大会。那次会议发出了一个明确无误的最强音，至今仍在各种文化中和各大洲发出回响：人权即是妇女的权利，妇女的权利即是人权。

One hundred and eighty-nine countries represented at Beijing adopted a Platform for Action that pledged to increase women’s access to education, healthcare, jobs, and credit, and to protect their right to live free from violence.We have made great progress, but there is a long way to go.Women are still the majority of the world’s poor, unhealthy, underfed, and uneducated.They rarely cause violent conflicts but too often bear their consequences.Women are absent from negotiations about

peace and security to end those conflicts.Their voices simply are not being heard.在北京出席会议的189个国家的代表通过了一项《行动纲领》，保证要增加妇女获得教育、医疗、就业和信贷的机会，并保护她们在生活中免遭暴力的权利。我们已经取得巨大的进展，但仍然有很长的路要走。在世界上的贫穷、患病、挨饿和未受过教育人群中，妇女仍然占大多数。她们中很少有人引起暴力冲突，但却经常承担暴力冲突带来的各种后果。在为结束这些冲突而举行的有关和平与安全问题的各种协商中，没有妇女参加。没有人听取她们的意见。

Today, the United States is making women a cornerstone of foreign policy because we think it’s the right thing to do, but we also believe it’s the smart thing to do as well.Investing in the potential of the world’s women and girls is one of the surest ways to achieve global economic progress, political stability, and greater prosperity for women — and men — the world over.今天，美国正在把妇女工作作为外交政策的基石，因为我们认为这是正确之举，但我们同时也认为这是智慧之举。通过投资发挥世界女性的潜力是实现全球经济发展、政治稳定和全世界妇女及男性带来更大繁荣的最有保障的方式之一。

So on this International Women’s Day, let us rededicate ourselves to advancing and protecting the rights of women and girls, and to join together to ensure that no one is left behind in the 21st century.因此，值此国际妇女节之际，让我们继续献身于促进与保护妇女和女童的权利，团结一致，以确保在21世纪没有任何人掉队。

第五篇：克林顿国务卿在亚洲之行前夕发表讲话

2009.02.13 克林顿国务卿在亚洲之行前夕发表讲话（全文）

美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿(Hillary Rodham Clinton)2月13日下午在纽约亚洲协会（Asia Society）发表讲话，阐明上任后即前往亚洲四国访问的重要意义和美国的对亚洲政策。以下是克林顿国务卿讲话的全文和随后的问答内容摘要，由美国国务院国际信息局(IIP)翻译。-----------------美国国务院 发言人办公室

美国国务卿希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿 在纽约亚洲协会的讲话 2009年2月13日 纽约州纽约市

克林顿国务卿：谢谢你，维莎卡(Vishakha)。也谢谢约翰·桑顿(John Thornton)和杰米·梅茨尔(Jamie Metzl)及今天下午在这里聚会的理事们。我十分高兴能够回到这里，回到这座宏伟的大楼，有机会向你们致谢，感谢亚洲协会数十年来为加强美国与亚洲人民和政府之间的关系所做的工作。

在我开始讲话前，请允许我用片刻的时间对今天因大陆航空公司3407航班不幸遇难而丧失亲人的家庭、出事地点克拉伦斯中心(Clarence Center)的居民及整个布法罗(Buffalo)社区的人民表达我的哀思并与他们一起祈祷。我了解纽约州西部地区人民的力量和爱心，完全相信他们会同心协力、互相支持、度过这段困难时光。

我感到十分悲伤的是，我获悉在这批过早离开我们的人中间有贝弗莉·埃克特(Beverly Eckert)，她本人在9.11袭击中失去了丈夫。贝弗莉与我相识并成为我的朋友及许多纽约人的朋友，她曾为9.11事件受害者家属争取权益而不懈努力。她是9.11委员会(9/11 Commission)的主要发起者之一。我会思念她。我要当众感谢她在自己遭受不幸后所做的一切。

半个世纪前，当亚洲协会成立时，亚洲深陷冷战的僵局，贫困肆虐，前景苍凉。在亚洲内外，除冲突、占领和绝望，很少有人能够预见任何不同的未来。今天，我将要访问的亚洲各国生活在和平的环境里。亚洲正处在全世界许多创新与潮流的前沿。无论是今天还是在我们的未来，亚洲都是全球文化的贡献者、全球经济的强大动力以及一个对美国至关重要的地区。

在过去的30年间，我有幸前往一个十分不同的亚洲旅行。每当我回忆起那些访问，就好像一卷新旧图像交错的电影胶片在头脑中闪过。我想起[日本]京都典雅的寺庙、[蒙古]乌兰巴托郊外的游牧生活、[泰国]清莱省传统艺人制作的精美工艺品、[越南]河内、香港和[孟加拉国]达卡熙熙攘攘的市场、新加坡与马尼拉的豪华酒店、[中国]西安练艺的书法家、[韩国]首尔的古典服装和[印尼]雅加达的传统舞蹈、[印度]新德里拨响的锡塔琴。

我还看到了摩天大楼和工厂，城市开发走廊和高科技园区，研究设施和现代化医院；在这个大洲，如今法治和自由选举已经或者正在更成为常规，创业精神和发明创造已将很多经济体转变为全球经济重镇。

亚洲影响了几千年世界文明，也影响了我们的文化。我国是1300万亚裔美国公民的家园，我们的日常生活因亚洲文学和艺术、音乐和电影、食品和建筑、医学和科学、技术和价值观而变得丰富多彩。

今天，人们往往容易将注意力集中于互相依赖所带来的紧张和危险，但我却更愿意视我们的相互关联为一种机遇，促进富有活力和建设性的伙伴合作关系，既能迎接挑战，又能把握这一新世纪的期许。

这便是我今天要谈论的话题，即美国如何致力于外交和发展的新时代，运用明智的实力，与长期的同盟及新兴国家共同努力，寻求解决全球性共同问题的地区和全球方案。

正如我所说过的，美国不能单独解决世界问题，而世界没有美国也不能解决问题。同时，鉴于当今国际现实，我们的外交政策不能再仅仅是逐个针对各个国家或仅仅是将世界分成各个地区。通过明智的实力，我们将谋求建立能超越地域和政治疆界的伙伴合作关系。

在未来几个月里，我在会晤欧洲、拉丁美洲、中东和非洲的领导人时，将敦促加强双边、地区和全球合作；同样，我下周在东京、雅加达、首尔和北京与亚洲领导人会谈时将谋求更有力的接触交流。

我希望通过我以国务卿身份首先访问亚洲来表明，我们需要太平洋彼岸的强大伙伴，就如同我们需要大西洋彼岸的强大伙伴一样。我们毕竟既是一个跨大西洋大国，也是一个跨太平洋大国。

我国与我即将访问的每一个国家的关系，以及与整个亚太地区所有伙伴和盟国的关系，都对我国的安全与繁荣不可或缺。在考虑我们面临的金融动荡和经济紊乱、恐怖主义和大规模毁灭性武器、粮食安全和紧迫的健康问题、气候变化和能源脆弱性、无国家形态的犯罪集团和人性剥削等种种最严重的全球威胁时，有一点十分清楚，即这些威胁都不受国界和海洋的阻拦。大规模流行病既威胁雅加达的学童也威胁杰克逊维尔（美国佛罗里达州城市—译注）的学童。全球金融危机既使扎幌也使旧金山的银行帐户缩水。核扩散构成的危险既在广州也在华盛顿令人担忧。气候变化既影响中国湖南省农民也影响美国中西部农民的生计。这些危险影响我们所有人，因此，我们大家都必须为解决这些问题发挥作用。

因此，我前往亚洲，准备带去美国希望作出更有力和更坚定的承诺和接触的信息；准备与亚洲领导人进行合作，解决对太平洋地区和对任何其他地区具有同样威胁的经济危机；准备加强我们的传统伙伴关系和同盟关系，同时深化与所有国家的关系；准备帮助防止核武器在亚洲的扩散；准备扩大我们的共同努力，应对气候变化和清洁能源、大规模流行病和贫富不均等21世纪的挑战。

奥巴马政府还准备将我们的接触延伸到政府大楼和官方会议厅之外，尽管这些十分重要。我们准备与公民社会接触；让扶持良好治理、自由选举和自由媒体、更广泛的受教育机会、更强大的健保体系、宗教包容以及人权所需的基础更加巩固。我们准备倾听意见。积极听取伙伴们的意见不仅是表示尊重，而且也能成为思路的来源，为我们的共同努力增添动力。仅在不久前，我们的政府太经常地在考虑已有事实和证据或听取他人观点之前便本能地采取行动。但奥巴马总统和我本人致力于贯彻既非出于一时冲动也不基于意识形态，而是重视他人意见的外交政策。当我们有分歧时──而分歧肯定是会有的──我们会坦诚地予以讨论，并且明确那些会限制我们合作能力的因素。作为我们对话的一部分，在我们努力扩大人权，建立一个尊重人权的世界的过程中──在这个世界里，诺贝尔和平奖得主昂山素季(Aung San Suu Kyi)能够在自己的国家自由生活，北韩人民能够自由地选择自己的领导人，藏族人民和全体中国人民能够享有宗教自由而无需担心被起诉──我们既要求自己承担责任，也要求其他国家承担责任。

我们认为，今天存在的问题也带来机会。运用明智的实力要从实事求是地评估我们生活的世界入手。这要求我们必须，毫无少于其他国家地，承认我们自己对出现在眼前的种种全球问题所具有的责任。

请让我先谈谈首先触及我们并使我们遭受重创的这场全球金融危机。今天，美国各地的家庭在失去工作、住房、储蓄和梦想。但这场危机不仅威胁到我们。其后果也波及亚洲部分地区和世界其他地区。

我们最近听到韩国财政经济部新任长官预计韩国经济今年将收缩2%，可能会有20万人失业。中国政府上周进行的一项农村调查显示，中国总计1.3亿民工中有2000万人失业。日本一份新的分析报告也预测经济收缩幅度要比先前预计的高。印度尼西亚12月的出口额下降了20%以上，预期的增长幅度也减小。根据台湾的经济报告，其出口额空前下降了44%。整个亚洲对耐用商品的需求量均大幅度降低。

这场全球金融危机迫使各国在国内寻求解决途径。但我们任何人都不能一味闭门自省，以致忽略国际伙伴为稳定世界经济并促使我们所有人重新回到繁荣发展的道路上所必须发挥的关键作用。我们也不能急于以高筑贸易及其他壁垒的方式应对；我们必须始终致力于一个开放与公平的贸易体制。在我们国内，美国政府正在努力解决房屋市场危机并重建银行系统。国会估计将批准一套刺激方案，这套方案将成为几十年来旨在创造就业机会和提高收入的规模最大的政府举措。中国、澳大利亚和亚洲其他国家作出了积极反响。我们需要多台引擎同时启动，才能重新带动全球增长。

在11月于华盛顿举行的20国集团会议上，与会领导人承诺采取各项行动，从调整财政政策到强化国内监管。即将于4月在伦敦举行的下次20国集团会议将为我们提供一个充实这一承诺的机会。

除了这场金融危机外，其他种种议题也需要双边以及区域性和全球性方针。美国致力于保持我国在亚洲的传统安全同盟，并以这些同盟关系为基础，应对我们面临的错综复杂的全球威胁。令我非常高兴的是，日本和韩国本周已同意联合援助阿富汗的重建努力，这两个国家还继续协助我们保障全球安全，特别是抗击非洲之角的海盗活动。

我们有必要合力解决东北亚地区的稳定所面临的最严峻的挑战──北韩的核项目。奥巴马政府致力于推动六方会谈，我将同韩国、日本和中国商讨如何最有效地促使会谈重归正轨。我们相信存在着推动这些讨论的机会，但北韩必须停止对韩国发出任何挑衅行动和无益的言论。

北韩政府已承诺放弃全部核武器，尽早重新加入《不扩散核武器条约》(Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons)。我们继续要求他们履行上述承诺。如果北韩有诚意地准备全面地、可核实地取消其核武器项目，奥巴马政府愿意实现双边关系正常化，以一项永久性的和平条约取代朝鲜半岛多年来的停火协议，并帮助满足北韩人民的能源及其他经济需求。

在一个相关问题上，我将让我们的日本盟友放心，我们没有忘记被绑架到北韩的日本公民的家庭。我下个星期将在东京会晤其中的一些家庭成员。

气候变化问题和对清洁能源的需求要靠全球来解决。现在，气候变化不仅是一个环境或能源问题，而且关系到我们的健康和我们的经济以及我们的安全，浑然一体。

总统和我迅速任命一名美国气候变化问题特使反映了我们对待这一威胁的紧迫感。我下星期将率同斯特恩(Todd Stern)特使前往亚洲，开始进行我们希望将为展开合作创造机会的讨论。

我国一直是历史上最大的温室气体排放国，我们承认，我们必须率先努力减少有害气体的排放和建设低碳经济。但是我将访问的每一个国家也在这项努力中承担角色。我将向日本和韩国积极主张清洁能源，并寻求同印度尼西亚的合作途径。夏伟(Orville Schell)在本期《时代》周刊杂志中的评论中提醒我们，在清洁能源和提高效益方面的协作为深化美-中整体关系提供了一个真正机会。因此，我们将与中国方面辛勤努力，建立伙伴合作关系，提倡使用更清洁的能源、提高能源效益和进行有益于两国的技术转让，并且促进其他既保护环境、同时又推动经济增长的战略。在北京期间，我将参观利用通用电气和中国技术建造的清洁热电厂。它是一个我们所大量需要的创造就业、以及双边合作关系和公私合作关系的榜样。你们可能听我形容过，在国家安全的三D中──防务(defense)、外交(diplomacy)和发展(development)，国务院的工作占其中的两个方面。每一方面都对加强我们的利益和我们的安全至为关键，然而，发展的重要性往往被视为处于我国更大外交政策目标的边缘。在奥巴马政府任内不会重复这种情况。我们将在世界各地大力促进发展，为公民们——特别是边缘人口和妇女儿童——提供更多机会，使他们能够发挥天赋潜能，而我们恰认为这种努力将增进我们的共同安全利益。今天，亚洲的很大部分地区享有和平与繁荣，这在很大程度上与美国不无关系，在过去半个世纪里美国努力支持亚洲国家的政治、经济、安全和教育结盟。

我们在发生自然灾害时提供了协助，包括支持印尼海啸和缅甸飓风后的重建工作，我们为此感到自豪。印尼人民和政府化解了亚齐省的长期内乱，该局势一度威胁到国家的进步，他们还为实现东帝汶的和平与稳定作出了积极努力，对此我们表示赞赏。

印尼是亚洲最富有活力的国家之一。人民把热情和理想相结合，在这个国家建立了自由和公正的选举制度、自由的新闻媒体和朝气蓬勃的公民社会。妇女在印尼政府中发挥了显著作用。我们将支持印尼和这个地区积极倡导共有价值观的其他国家，我们也期待着同该地区的其他伙伴和朋友合作，例如我们的盟友泰国和菲律宾，还有新加坡、马来西亚和越南，以确保东盟能够实践宪章，展示该地区在经济、政治、人权和社会问题上的领导能力。

我还要感谢澳大利亚几十年来所发挥的领导作用和友谊。虽然我此行不能访问澳大利亚，但我们知道澳大利亚是我们在世界上最可信赖的盟友之一。我们都从新闻报道中看到，过去一周内野火给维多利亚州造成了巨大损失。奥巴马总统和陆克文总理通过电话讨论了目前的状况。我们已经派出森林火灾方面的专家帮助澳大利亚人民。我们希望澳大利亚的朋友们确知，我们和他们一道哀悼在这场悲剧中逝去的无辜生命。我们在过去共同努力，还将在未来携手前进，为此，我们心存感激。

我现在向大家简要介绍一下我将在下周讨论的一些关键性问题。我按照访问的国家顺序逐一介绍，从我此行的第一站日本开始。明年，我们与日本的安全联盟将满50年，该联盟一直是并且必须继续是不可动摇的。在东京，我将签署《关岛国际协议》（Guam International Agreement）。根据该协议，将有8000名美军从冲绳转移至关岛，以使我们的安全联盟能够应对目前的挑战。另外，日本在解决巴基斯坦经济危机方面正在发挥更大的领导作用，还参与太空探索、疾病治疗、救助世界各地的灾民等项集体努力。日本应为此受到赞誉。我们预期进一步加强与日本的伙伴关系，以帮助维护亚洲的和平与稳定，日益加强关注全球性挑战，例如灾害救助、推动阿富汗和巴基斯坦的女童教育和减轻非洲的贫困。我们还将注重与印尼的合作，我们认为与印尼的合作大有潜力。不必我说，我们的新总统在印尼广为人知，深受钦佩。我们现在有机会加强在教育、能源和食品安全方面的伙伴关系。印尼政府还建议与美国建立更深的伙伴关系。这种设想反映了在共同关心的领域中的一种积极做法，我们决心制订具体的日程，与印尼共建这种伙伴关系。

韩国历来是我们最坚定的盟友之一。毫无疑问，凡是追踪韩国历史的人都会和我一样对韩国从上一个世纪的停滞状态转变至生机勃勃的今天感到赞叹。美国和韩国都将坚定不移地以互惠的方式扩大贸易。我们将为实现该目标共同努力。作为亚洲协会的会员，各位深知中国的重要性，深知我们与中国保持积极的合作关系至关重要。这不仅关系到亚太地区的和平与繁荣，而且关系到全球的和平与繁荣。在过去二十年的经济增长中，我们与中国的经济往来有目共睹。在目前困难的经济形势下，在种种——我是说——在我们面临的种种全球性挑战下，这种重要性更加明显，这些挑战包括核安全、气候变化、大规模流行病等等。那么，有些人认为崛起的中国一定是一个对手。然而，正相反，我们认为美国和中国都能够从对方的成功中受益，也都能够为对方的成功作出贡献。就共同关心的领域和共有的机会作出更大努力符合双方的利益。中国已经在多方面发挥了积极的作用，例如主持六方会谈和参加国际维和工作。我可以在此欣慰地宣布，我们两国在这个月晚些时候将恢复军方中层会谈。我们期待着台湾海峡两岸的关系进一步改善。

即使我们之间存在分歧，美国仍将致力于寻求与中国发展建设性关系，我们认为这种关系对未来美国的和平、进步与繁荣至关重要。

中国古代有个故事，讲的是战国时期两个交战国的士兵在风雨中同乘一条船横渡大江。他们没有厮杀，而是同心协力，因此得以幸存。中国有一个源于这个故事的成语，叫做“同舟共济”。今天，这个成语中蕴含的智慧必须继续为我们引路指航。

因此，在星期天动身前往亚洲时，我肩负着坚定的承诺，将与太平洋彼岸的合作伙伴们共同辛勤努力，加强我们的交往，以便再次取得过去半个世纪中具有积极意义的转变，并在本世纪中使之更加巩固，更加明显。我们面临一个这样的机会，我希望我们能够把握这个机会，但不能仅仅依赖政府去做，还要靠全国各地的美国人，包括今天在座的亚洲协会的会员们、民营部门、学术界、劳工和专业人士、非政府组织。让我们下定决心，主动联系，积极回应，相互谅解，作出承诺。这样，我们不仅会加深理解，而且将采取积极的行动，改善我们本国人民以及今天亚洲人民的生活。非常感谢大家。(掌声)（讲话全文结束）--------------------以下是克林顿国务卿在讲话结束后同与会者的问答摘要： 德赛女士：……第一个问题非常简单，但我们很想听你谈谈作为国务卿，你认为首先访问亚洲，而不是其他地区的重大意义是什么？

克林顿国务卿：我认为这明确地显示出我们这届新政府希望集中大量的时间和精力同亚洲伙伴和太平洋地区的所有国家合作，因为我们清楚，我们的未来在很大程度上取决于我们与该地区的关系。我们也同样清楚，我们应对目前所面临的多种全球挑战的能力取决于该地区的决策。因此，我作出这个决定并不难。很显然，我们要集中精力应对今天存在于我们面前的很多问题。

实际上，我到国务院赴任的第一天，也是本届政府就职的第二天，奥巴马总统和拜登副总统就双双亲临国务院，根据我的要求宣布任命米切尔(George Mitchell)为中东事务特使，霍尔布鲁克(Richard Holbrooke)为阿富汗和巴基斯坦事务特使。因此，我们显然重视全世界多个地区。

我们目前正准备参加即将在欧洲举行的北约首脑会议。我将于3月2日前往开罗，出席由埃及主持的为加沙人民提供人道主义援助的捐助国会议。我将帮助安排我们参加定于4月举行的美洲国家首脑会议的事宜，这次会议对于我们的南部邻国以及我们本国都将非常重要。在非洲，我们正在努力应对很多挑战。世界如此广大，我们有很多工作要做。而且，我认为人们普遍感到我们最近几年对亚洲的重视似乎不够，因为我们的注意力被世界其他地区占据。因此，我希望在一开始就显示出我们对该地区的重视。

德赛女士：谢谢你。上述问题是德国广播公司驻华盛顿记者金德尔(Robert Kindle)提出的。

下一个问题是我们常驻旧金山的副会长沃兹沃思(Jack Wadsworth)提出的。他的问题是，我复述一下大意，在保尔森-布什时期，美中对话的首要议题是经济。你对扩大对话议程的风险或潜在益处有何见解？

克林顿国务卿：这个问题提得很好，表述得也很恰当。我和盖特纳部长已经当面谈过这个问题，因为我们认为国务院和财政部应当在美国和中国需要讨论的广泛议题上发挥相辅相成的作用。我们认为这能为我们提供在政府所有层次同时展开接触的机会。至于我们如何制定这些对话的框架，将是我下周要同中国领导人讨论的问题。但我们必须真正理解我们共同关注的问题的广度和深度。

你们都听我提到了能源和环境变化问题。我已经说过，我们历来都是排放大国，而中国刚刚超过我们。他们现在是头号排放大国。这对于医疗保健和生活质量指数以及经济和其他诸多方面都产生了极为直接的影响。因此，我们希望进行非常广泛的磋商。至于磋商的框架，我们将同中国共同制定。(问答摘要完)13 February 2009 Remarks by Secretary Clinton at Asia Society in New York Clinton looks forward to working with trans-Pacific partners on Asia trip

(begin transcript)U.S.DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman February 13, 2009 REMARKS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Asia Society February 13, 2009 New York, New York SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, Vishakha, and thanks also to John Thornton and Jamie Metzl and the board members who are gathered here this afternoon.It is a great pleasure to be back here in this magnificent building and to have the chance to thank you for the Asia Society’s work over many decades to strengthen the relationship between America and the people and governments of Asia.Before I begin, let me just take a moment to say that my thoughts and prayers today are with the families who lost loved ones in the tragic crash of Continental Flight 3407, with those who live in Clarence Center where this tragedy occurred, and with the entire Buffalo community.I know the strength and compassion of the people of western New York and have no doubt that they will pull together and support each other through this difficult time.I was deeply saddened to learn that among those who were taken from us too soon was Beverly Eckert, who herself lost her husband in the attacks of September 11th.Beverly became known to me and a friend to me and to many New Yorkers for her tireless advocacy for the families of the victims of 9/11, and she was one of the principal champions of the idea of the creation of the 9/11 Commission.I will miss her, and I want to just publicly thank her for all she did in the midst of her own tragedy.A half century ago when the Asia Society was founded, Asia was frozen in a cold war, wracked by poverty, and seemingly destined for desolation.Few in or outside of Asia’s borders foresaw anything but a future of conflict, occupation, and despair.Today, the countries I will visit are at peace.Asia is on the cutting edge of so many of the world’s innovations and trends.It is a contributor to global culture, a global economic power, and a region of vital importance to the United States today and into our future.Over the past 30 years, I’ve had the privilege of traveling to a very different Asia.Whenever I think back on my visits, it’s as if a movie reel of images, old and new, were running through my head.I think of the elegant temples of Kyoto, or the rituals of nomadic life outside Ulaanbaatar, the intricate handwork of traditional craftspeople in Chiang Rai, the vibrant markets of Hanoi, Hong Kong, and Dhaka;the grand hotels of Singapore and Manila, the calligraphers practicing their art in Xi’an, the historic dress of Seoul and the traditional dances of Jakarta, or the strum of the sitar in New Delhi.And I’ve seen also the skyscrapers and factories, the urban corridors and high-tech campuses, the research facilities and modern hospitals – a continent where, now, more often than not, the rule of law and free elections have become or are in the process of becoming the norm, where entrepreneurship and innovation have transformed economies into global economic powers.Asia has influenced world civilization for millennia, as it has our own culture.Our nation is home to 13 million Asian American citizens, and our daily life is so enriched by Asian literature and art, by music and movies, by food and architecture, medicine and science, technology and values.Today, it is tempting to focus our attention on the tensions and perils of our interdependence, but I prefer to view our connectedness as an opportunity for dynamic and productive partnerships that can address both the challenge and the promise of this new century.And that’s what I want to talk about today, how the United States is committed to a new era of diplomacy and development in which we will use smart power to work with historic allies and emerging nations to find regional and global solutions to common global problems.As I’ve said before, America cannot solve the problems of the world alone, and the world cannot solve them without America.At the same time, given the realities of today’s world, we can no longer approach our foreign policy solely country by country, or simply by carving the world into separate regions.With smart power, we will seek to build partnerships that transcend geographic and political boundaries.In the months ahead, I will press for stronger bilateral, regional, and global cooperation when I meet with leaders of Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, just as I will seek more robust engagement in my discussions with Asian leaders in Tokyo, Jakarta, Seoul, and Beijing next week.In making my first trip as Secretary of State to Asia, I hope to signal that we need strong partners across the Pacific, just as we need strong partners across the Atlantic.We are, after all, both a transatlantic and a transpacific power.Our relationships with each of the countries I’m visiting, and with all of our partners and allies throughout Asia and the Pacific, are indispensable to our security and prosperity.When we consider the gravest global threats confronting us – financial instability and economic dislocation, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, food security and health emergencies, climate change and energy vulnerability, stateless criminal cartels and human exploitation – it is clear that these threats do not stop at borders or oceans.Pandemics threaten school children in Jakarta and Jacksonville.Global financial crises shrink bank accounts in Sapporo and San Francisco.The dangers posed by nuclear proliferation create worries in Guangzhou as well as Washington.And climate change affects the livelihoods of farmers in China’s Hunan province and in America’s Midwest.These dangers affect us all, and therefore we all must play a role in addressing them.So I leave for Asia ready to deliver a message about America’s desire for more rigorous and persistent commitment and engagement, ready to work with leaders in Asia to resolve the economic crisis that threatens the Pacific as much as any other region, ready to strengthen our historic partnerships and alliances while developing deeper bonds with all nations, ready to help prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons in Asia, ready to expand our combined efforts on 21st century challenges like climate change and clean energy, pandemics, and income inequality.In the Obama Administration, we are also ready to reach beyond ministerial buildings and official meeting halls, as important as those are.We’re ready to engage civil society to strengthen the foundations needed to support good governance, free elections, and a free press, wider educational opportunities, stronger healthcare systems, religious tolerance, and human rights.And we are ready to listen.Actively listening to our partners isn’t just a way of demonstrating respect.It can also be a source of ideas to fuel our common efforts.Too often in the recent past, our government has acted reflexively before considering available facts and evidence, or hearing the perspectives of others.But President Obama and I are committed to a foreign policy that is neither impulsive nor ideological, one that values what others have to say.And when we have differences, which we will, we will discuss them frankly and specify those which limit our capacity to cooperate.As part of our dialogues, we will hold ourselves and others accountable as we work to expand human rights and create a world that respects those rights, one where Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi can live freely in her own country, where the people of North Korea can freely choose their own leaders, and where Tibetans and all Chinese people can enjoy religious freedom without fear of prosecution.Existing problems today, we believe, are opportunities as well.Exercising smart power begins with realistic assessments of the world we inhabit.And this obliges us, no less than other nations, to acknowledge our own contributions to the global problems we face.Let me start with the global financial crisis that hit us first and hit us deeply.Across the United States today, families are losing jobs, homes, savings, and dreams.But this is not our crisis alone.Its repercussions are also being felt in parts of Asia and elsewhere around the world.We have recently heard forecasts from South Korea’s new finance minister that their economy will shrink by 2 percent this year, with 200,000 jobs potentially lost.A Chinese Government survey of villages last week reported that 20 million of the nation’s 130 million migrant workers are unemployed.In Japan, a new analysis predicts a larger economic contraction than previously forecast.Indonesia’s exports fell by more than 20 percent in December as growth estimates have also fallen.And Taiwan’s economy reported a record 44 percent drop in exports.Throughout Asia, the demand for durable goods is way down.The global financial crisis requires every nation to look inward for solutions, but none of us can afford to become so introspective that we overlook the critical role that international partnerships must play in stabilizing the world’s economy and putting all of us back on the path to prosperity.And we cannot respond with a race to erect trade and other barriers.We must remain committed to a system of open and fair trade.Here at home, our government is working to address the housing crisis and restore the banking system.Congress is expected to pass a stimulus package that represents the largest government effort in a generation to create jobs and increase incomes.China, Australia, and others in Asia are responding vigorously.We need multiple engines working together to reignite global growth.At the G-20 meeting in Washington in November, leaders pledged to take actions from adjusting fiscal policy to strengthening domestic regulation.The upcoming G-20 meeting in April in London will provide us with an opportunity to build on that pledge.Like the financial crisis, other issues also require bilateral as well as regional and global approaches.The United States is committed to maintaining our historic security alliances in Asia and building on those relationships to counter the complex global threats we face.I’m very pleased that Japan and South Korea this week agreed to joint assistance for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, and that both countries continue to work with us on global security, especially in combating piracy off the Horn of Africa.We will need to work together to address the most acute challenge to stability in Northeast Asia, North Korea’s nuclear program.The Obama Administration is committed to working through the Six-Party Talks, and I will discuss with South Korea, Japan, and China how best to get the negotiations back on track.We believe we have an opportunity to move these discussions forward, but it is incumbent upon North Korea to avoid any provocative action and unhelpful rhetoric toward South Korea.The North Korean Government has committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and to return at an early date to the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.We continue to hold them to those commitments.If North Korea is genuinely prepared to completely and verifiably eliminate their nuclear weapons program, the Obama Administration will be willing to normalize bilateral relations, replace the peninsula’s longstanding armistice agreements with a permanent peace treaty, and assist in meeting the energy and other economic needs of the North Korean people.On a related matter, I will assure our allies in Japan that we have not forgotten the families of Japanese citizens abducted to North Korea.And I will meet with some of those families in Tokyo next week.Global solutions are essential to addressing climate change and the need for clean sources of energy.Now, climate change is not just an environmental nor an energy issue, it also has implications for our health and our economies and our security, all wrapped up in one.The rapid appointment that the President and I made of a United States Special Envoy for Climate Change reflects the seriousness we feel about dealing with this urgent threat.And I will be taking Special Envoy Todd Stern with me to Asia next week to begin the discussions that we hope will create the opportunities for cooperation.Now, our nation has been the largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases, and we acknowledge that we must lead efforts to cut harmful emissions and build a lower-carbon economy.But each of the countries that I’m visiting also have a role to play in this effort.I will press the case for clean energy in both Japan and South Korea, and look for ways to work with Indonesia as well.Orville Schell’s commentary in Time magazine this week reminds us that collaboration on clean energy and greater efficiency offers a real opportunity to deepen the overall U.S.-Chinese relationship.So we will work hard with the Chinese to create partnerships that promote cleaner energy sources, greater energy efficiency, technology transfers that can benefit both countries, and other strategies that simultaneously protect the environment and promote economic growth.While in Beijing, I will visit a clean thermal power plant built with GE and Chinese technology.It serves as an example of the kind of job-creating, bilateral, public-private collaboration that we need so much more of.Now, you may have heard me describe the portfolio of the State Department as including two of national security’s three Ds: defense, diplomacy, and development.Each is essential to advancing our interests and our security.Yet too often, development is regarded as peripheral to our larger foreign policy objectives.This will not be the case in the Obama Administration.We will energetically promote development around the world to expand opportunities that enable citizens, particularly on the margins, and particularly women and children, to fulfill their God-given potential, which we happen to believe will advance our shared security interests.That much of Asia enjoys peace and prosperity today is due in no small part to American efforts over the last half century to support political, economic, security, and educational alliances with Asian nations.We are proud to have lent American assistance in response to natural disasters, including rebuilding efforts after the tsunami in Indonesia and the cyclone in Burma.And we commend the Indonesian people and government for settling longstanding civil conflict in Aceh that threatened the country’s progress, and for similar positive efforts to achieve peace and stability that are working in Timor-Leste.Indonesia is one of Asia’s most dynamic nations, where human energy and aspiration combine to help lead the country to a free and fair system of elections, a free press, a robust civil society, and a prominent role for women in the Indonesian Government.We will support Indonesia and other countries in the region that are actively promoting shared values.And we look forward to working with our other partners and friends in the regions, allies like Thailand and the Philippines, along with Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam, to ensure that ASEAN can live up to its charter, to demonstrate the region’s capacity for leadership on economic, political, human rights, and social issues.Let me also thank Australia for its leadership and friendship over decades.While I’m not able to visit Australia on this trip, we know that Australia is one of our most trusted allies in the world.And as we have all seen in the news, wildfires have devastated the state of Victoria during the past week.President Obama and Prime Minister Rudd have discussed the situation by phone.And we have sent forest fire specialists to help the Australians out.We want our Australian friends to know that we mourn with them over the loss of innocent lives in this tragedy, and we remain grateful for our work together in the past and what we will do together in the future.Let me now give you a brief rundown of some of the key issues that I will be addressing next week, country by country, starting with my first stop in Japan.Our security alliance with Japan, 50 years old next year, has been, and must remain, unshakable.In Tokyo, I will sign the Guam International Agreement, which will position our security alliance to meet the challenges of this time by moving 8,000 American troops from Okinawa to Guam.Japan is also to be commended for taking on a bigger leadership role in addressing the economic crisis in Pakistan and for working on collaborative efforts to explore space, cure disease, and offer relief to victims of disasters around the world.We anticipate an even stronger partnership with Japan that helps preserve the peace and stability of Asia and increasingly focuses on global challenges, from disaster relief to advancing education for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan to alleviating poverty in Africa.We also will focus on the very fertile ground for cooperation that we believe exists with Indonesia.I don’t need to remind you that our new President is well known and much admired there.We now have an opportunity for stronger partnerships on education, energy, and food security.The Indonesian Government has also suggested the creation of a deeper partnership with the United States.This idea represents a positive approach to areas of common concern, and we are committed to working with Indonesia to pursue such a partnership with a concrete agenda.In South Korea, we will be visiting with one of our staunchest historic allies.And certainly, everyone who has followed the history of South Korea joins me in admiration for the transition that we have observed from static conditions of the past century to the dynamic state that South Korea finds itself in today.The United States and South Korea are both committed to expanding trade in a manner that benefits both of our countries, and we will work together to that end.As members of the Asia Society, you know very well how important China is and how essential it is that we have a positive, cooperative relationship.It is vital to peace and prosperity, not only in the Asia-Pacific region, but worldwide.Our mutual economic engagement with China was evident during the economic growth of the past two decades.It is even clearer now in economic hard times and in the array – excuse me – in the array of global challenges we face, from nuclear security to climate change to pandemic disease and so much else.Now, some believe that China on the rise is, by definition, an adversary.To the contrary, we believe that the United States and China can benefit from and contribute to each other’s successes.It is in our interest to work harder to build on areas of common concern and shared opportunities.China has already asserted itself in positive ways as chair of the Six-Party Talks and in its participation in international peacekeeping efforts.And our two countries, I’m happy to say, will resume mid-level military-to-military discussions later this month.And we look forward to further improved relations across the Taiwan Strait.Even with our differences, the United States will remain committed to pursuing a positive relationship with China, one that we believe is essential to America’s future peace, progress, and prosperity.An ancient Chinese story tells of warring feudal states, whose soldiers find themselves on a boat together crossing a wide river in a storm.Instead of fighting one another, they work together and survive.Now, from this story comes a Chinese aphorism that says, “When you are in a common boat, you need to cross the river peacefully together.” The wisdom of that aphorism must continue to guide us today.So I will leave for Asia Sunday with a firm commitment to work very hard with our partners across the Pacific, to strengthen our engagement so that the positive transformations of the past half-century are replicated, mirrored, made stronger and more obvious in this century.We have such an opportunity that I hope we will seize, but it is not just up to our government to do so.It is also up to Americans across our country, those of you here in the Asia Society, in the private sector, in academia, in labor and the professions, in nongovernmental organizations all.Let us commit ourselves to providing the kind of outreach and responsiveness, understanding, and commitment that will lead not just to a better understanding, but positive actions to improve the lives of our own people here and those who live in Asia today.Thank you all very much.(Applause.)MS.DESAI: My goodness.SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you.(Applause.)MS.DESAI: Please stay seated for a little while longer.First of all, thank you so much for such an amazing, encompassing speech that I know is going to be heard around the world, as it is being heard now.The Secretary has actually agreed to take a few questions.I want to just remind you all that we really want to focus on East Asia.So those of who say, “How come she didn’t say anything about India,” we’re not doing it now –(laughter)– just so you know.Because there’s another time.And the fact is that the Special Representative Richard Holbrooke is actually in South Asia now, and we don’t want all of our heavy power all to be in the same place at the same time.So do not ask those questions.And what I’m going to do is that we actually have questions from online audience, as well as here, and we have selected a few to see if you would give some answers.The first one is very simple, but we would love to hear from you about what you think is the significance of having your first trip as Secretary of State to Asia and not somewhere else? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I believe it demonstrates clearly that our new Administration wants to focus a lot of time and energy in working with Asian partners and all the nations in the Pacific region because we know that so much of our future depends upon our relationships there.And we equally know that our capacity to solve a lot of the global challenges that we’re confronting depends upon decisions that are made there.So it was an easy choice for me to make.Obviously, we are focused on the many problems that exist today that we’re confronting.Right off the bat, actually, the very first day I walked into the State Department and the second day of his Administration, both President Obama and Vice President Biden came to the State Department to make the announcements that I had asked them to do, naming George Mitchell as our Special Envoy to the Middle East and Richard Holbrooke as our Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan.So clearly, we are focused on many parts of the world.We are in preparation right now for the NATO Summit that will be coming up in Europe.I will be going to Cairo on March the 2nd for the Donors Conference that Egypt is hosting on humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza.I will be helping to tee up what we do with the Summit of Americas that is coming in April that will be very important for our neighbors to the south, as well as ourself.We have a lot of challenges in Africa that we are working hard to address.So it’s a big world, and we have a lot of work to do.And I think there has been a general feeling that perhaps we didn’t pay an appropriate amount of attention to Asia over the last years, being very preoccupied with other parts of the world, so I wanted to start at the very beginning demonstrating our commitment there.MS.DESAI: Thank you.That was from Robert Kindle of ARD German Broadcasting from Washington, D.C.The next question is from our own Vice Chair sitting in San Francisco, Jack Wadsworth.And he’s asking, and I will paraphrase the question, that under the Paulson-Bush era, the primary focus of U.S.-China dialogue has been economic.What do you think are the risks or potential benefits of broadening this agenda? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, it’s an excellent question, and it’s a apt description.Secretary Geithner and I have already met about this because we believe that the Department of State and the Treasury Department should be playing a mutually reinforcing role with respect to the broad range of issues that the United States and China should be discussing.We think that this provides us with the opportunity to engage at all levels of government simultaneously.How we’re going to structure those dialogues is something that I will be discussing with the Chinese leadership this coming week.But it is important that we understand how broad and deep the concerns that we share truly are.You know, I made a reference to energy and climate change.We are, as I said, the historically largest emitter, but China has just surpassed us.They are now the largest emitter.And this has such direct effects on healthcare and indices of quality of life, as well as the economy and so much else.So we want to have a very broad discussion.How we structure it is something we’re going to work out mutually with the Chinese.MS.DESAI: Well, sometimes people have said that since Secretary Geithner would be so focused on the economic stimulus package here and what happens at home, does that mean that State will actually take more of a leadership responsibility for the organization of these under your leadership? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, we know that the Secretary, along with much of the rest of our government, is focused on getting our own economy up and going.But what we can do and the sequencing of how effective our recovery will be is very intimately connected with what the Chinese are doing and the decisions they’re making.So the economic dialogue is a broad one to start with.There are aspects of it that I think, you know, very much belong within the Treasury portfolio.But there are other aspects which cut across the entire range of issues that we would like to address with the Chinese.So that’s why Secretary Geithner and I have been working out our own approach.There have always been, alongside the strategic economic dialogue that Treasury led during the Bush Administration, senior dialogues on a range of issues, plus defense-related discussions.So there’s been a lot going on, but partly out of choices that were made in the last eight years, the economic dialogue, led by the Treasury Department, really did assume a larger role than a lot of these other concerns.And we think that it is in our mutual interest to work out a way that all of these important issues are discussed on an ongoing basis, and that’s what we intend to do.MS.DESAI: Well, I must say from the Asia Society perspective, it’s wonderful that you and the Obama Administration generally have focused so much on climate change because of our own work under the leadership of Orville Schell.But I should also tell you that Tim Geithner happens to be a good friend of this institution because Peter, his father, who is the head of the Asia region in Ford Foundation, was also a good friend.So we’re delighted that you will be working together, and we hope he will be here as well.SECRETARY CLINTON: I will extend the invitation.MS.DESAI: Right.Thank you.(Laughter.)SECRETARY CLINTON: I don’t know if they’ll let him out of Washington for anything--MS.DESAI: Not yet.Not yet.SECRETARY CLINTON:--anything yet.MS.DESAI: This is an interesting question.North Korean Philharmonic wants to hold a concert in New York, in response to when the New York Philharmonic went there.Is there any condition in changing the atmosphere before such visas could be granted? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I am hopeful that we will be able to engage the North Korean Government in the kind of serious discussion that I referred to in my remarks, one that could lead with their fulfilling their commitments regarding denuclearization and nonproliferation to bilateral relations and opportunities for the kind of normalization that I think many would hope to see.So much of it depends upon the choices that they make.But we will look at all of these individual decisions – like the Philharmonic coming here, for example – and consider whether or not that does help us to try to change the atmosphere to increase the connections between North Koreans, and certainly, Americans get it off of just the government-to-government Six-Party Talk and bilateral discussions that have been the, you know, predominant or only way of that kind of formal relationship.So much of it depends upon the choices that the North Korean Government makes.And certainly, we are hopeful that they will not engage in provocative actions and words that could create a much more difficult path for us to walk with them.MS.DESAI: This is about the Bretton Woods Institution.Some experts have called for a revision of the Bretton Woods Institution and the UN – especially the Security Council, as you know – so that it would account primarily also for the increasing role of Asian states in global, economic and political affairs.How, if at all, do you think these institutions might accommodate and engage a rising Asia? SECRETARY CLINTON: I think the discussions that have been started in the G-20 and also at the G-8 level, as well as within multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, as well as within governments, should vigorously consider and debate whether we need new institutions, whether we need to, you know, reframe some of the regulatory processes that need to be in place.This should all be on the table, and I know that certainly, the Obama Administration is going to be implementing new regulations in our own economy that we think will make the free market work better and be more effective without the kind of distortion and interference that some of the decisions that we’ve seen over the last several years have caused.So I think that there is a great – a great receptivity, but the devil is in the details, and there hasn’t been the kind of hard work yet done to determine whether the – you know, the son of Bretton Woods is a realistic possibility or not.And I’m hoping that that will be part of the broader agenda.I know it’s on the minds of the President and the Treasury Secretary and the National Economic Council led by Larry Summers.So from my perspective, I think it’s important for the United States to lead and rebuild confidence in our own markets to demonstrate that we’ve learned the lessons that the last months have unfortunately brought home to us, in order to both answer the legitimate criticism from others around the world and assuage their concerns about our economic position.In order to continue to be the preeminent economic power in the United States, we have to take actions here that will position us for that kind of future.And I hope that with the President’s leadership, you’ll see that happen.MS.DESAI: As you have said numerous times, actually, that often in Asia, people have said after their last financial crisis that we gave them lots of advice on what to do.And many Asians now come back and say, “But America hasn’t followed its own advice.” And therefore, we have to reclaim that position again--SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s right.MS.DESAI:--of credibility.It’s important.SECRETARY CLINTON: I think that – I mean, everyone talks about our current financial crisis as being as much one of confidence and trust as of, you know, credit.And I really believe that we’ve got to take steps here in order to demonstrate exactly what Vishakha is saying, that we’ve cleaned up our own house and we’ve done it in a smart way, where we haven’t crippled our capacity to, you know, be the global, you know, credit center, to be a market maker, to do all that is done so well historically in this city.But you don’t have to travel very far to hear the voices of doubt and even the explicit criticism coming from the leaders of other countries.And it’s my hope that, you know, again, we’ll have a public-private partnership to address these concerns, answer them, and, you know, lead the global recovery so that we can once again, you know, be promoting and creating prosperity here at home as well as around the world.MS.DESAI: This question is partly related, but somewhat different, and this question is from Michele Ehlers and she’s a co-founder of Global Visionary – Global Leadership Network in Fremont, California.And her question is: How can we upgrade our American dream to a global vision that the earth can sustain and that is supportable for every human being? If we Americans wish to be known for our leadership in the world and be recognized as true partners in global development, we need to take on a new model of life that’s sustainable and possible for every human being.How can you best advocate that? SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s a great question, and it was a question that maybe five years ago would have been, you know, thought of as kind of touchy-feely, to be honest about it –(laughter)– and would not have been entertained seriously in a lot of the boardrooms and the decision-makers’ meetings and halls of legislatures.But I think it is an issue that we have to be smart about addressing.You see, the threat of global climate change, the intimidation created as we’ve seen in Europe by control over energy supplies, the fear that globalization has not spread its benefits broadly and deeply enough, those are all opportunities for Americans, primarily in the private sector and also in our government, to start kind of solving these problems, and to do so with the same level of energy and ingenuity that we have brought to problems in the past.We have such an opportunity here, and I’m hoping that, you know, some of the provisions that made their way through the difficult negotiations over the stimulus package will have the result of helping to jumpstart and support research.We’ve got to get back to supporting basic science in America.It’s one of our greatest advantages.And we have not been keeping up with our potential for leading the way in science, technology, and research.So I would hope that the answer to the question asked doesn’t, in any Americans’ minds, sort of create the image that somehow, we would have to give up our way of life.I mean, that seems to always end up being the debate, that, you know, this will be economically ruinous for us, this will cause us to fall behind, we’ll lose out in what the American dream should be, in a material sense.And I just don’t buy that.I don’t believe that is the way forward.Now, do we have to change some of how we live? Yes.But, you know, changing to compact fluorescent bulbs is not the kind of sacrifice that is going to undermine the quality of our life.(Laughter.)You know, it--MS.DESAI: You know, in Australia, now they already have made that as a law.SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s right.MS.DESAI: You know, so--SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s right.And so I think there’s – you know, you can go from the small steps that each of us can take, which, in the aggregate, would add up to significant changes, to the kind of governmental driven decisions that you’ll see more of in the Obama Administration.Our new Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is absolutely focused on how he can make the case that changes in our uses of energy, and in how we both create it and deliver it, would go a long way toward enabling us to live a better, more sustainable life.You know, even though the legislative changes that have been made in California over the last 35 years have resulted in a lower per capita usage of electricity than in the rest of the country – and I don’t think people in California feel like they’re deprived.So part of what we have to do is have the leadership in both the public and the private sectors look to academia – you know, ask for good ideas – and then begin implementing them, and do so with courage and a pioneering spirit.You know, we are supposed to be the problem solvers.You know, that’s who we’re supposed to be.And it’s time, when we face these global challenges, we demonstrate that that’s who we continue to be.And I’m excited by it.I think, you know, our children and our children’s children will live very well if we make the right decisions now.And if we don’t, I don’t think we can look them in the eyes and make that claim, and I don’t want to live like that as an American.I think it’s far preferable that we step up to our responsibilities, and I know that’s what the President is trying to encourage us to do.MS.DESAI: Well, it’s sort of – you talk about smart power in international relations.This is about smart energy use--SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s right.MS.DESAI:--domestically and--SECRETARY CLINTON: Yeah, smart grids.MS.DESAI: Exactly.SECRETARY CLINTON: Smart cars.MS.DESAI: Right.SECRETARY CLINTON: You know, I mean, it’s not going to happen overnight.But the idea that we just continue putting off the future when we’re supposed to be the country of the future is so contrary to our nature.And it is, I think, causing some puzzlement around the world.But also, people are going to say, “Well, we’ll take advantage of those opportunities.”

You know, whether or not we have a modern battery industry is up to us.Whether or not we have a smart electric grid that will save energy and be able to decentralize energy production and usage is up to us.Whether or not we sort our way through our automobile crisis and end up with cars that are energy savers as – insofar as transportation permits is up to us.And you can go down the list.These are not somebody else’s responsibility, and I think we have to have a very significant government commitment, and that’s what we’re trying to do in the Obama Administration.It’s still difficult to make the case.I mean, a lot of what was in the stimulus originally, which would have set the path for us, you know, was not left in because it was thought to be, you know, economically challenging, should be left to – completely to the private sector.Well, we forget we electrified the country because the government stepped in.You know, we have so many examples from our past where we went as far as we could with the private sector, but frankly, it wasn’t profitable to bring electricity to the northern reaches of New York and the Adirondacks or northern Arkansas.The interstate highway system – we built highways to places that were barely populated, which are now booming.I mean, we made decisions that drove our growth and they were government and business decisions, and I think we’ve got to get back to thinking about that and feeling like we’re all on the American team for the next decade so that we can reassert our position economically here at home and around the world.MS.DESAI: On that note, we must bring this to an end.I just want to say that with our foreign policy in your hands, our heart is at ease.SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, thank you.MS.DESAI: Please join me in thanking Secretary Clinton.(Applause.)(end transcript)Article translated in: 中文

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