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国务卿迈克尔·R蓬佩奥
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华盛顿D.C.
2020年8月5日
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我想首先，按我常做的那样，讲讲关于共产主义中国的几件事。
自从我上次来这儿，世界已见证了中共胁迫和控制其公民的更多例子。其他国家和美国已发表了数份声明。
我们看到在香港是如此，在那里，当局推迟了立法机构选举，逮捕了民主活动人士，发出了针对热爱自由的外国人——包括一名美国人——的通缉令。我敦请美国公民在前往或身处中国任何地方时要加倍谨慎。
我们看到中共要去控制新疆穆斯林少数群体的持续的野心。我赞赏美国财政部在刚刚过去的这周针对那里的侵犯人权者行使其在全球马格尼茨基法案下的权力。
而且我们还看到中共在世界其他地方的无法无天。我在周日发表了一项声明，是关于悬挂中国国旗的船只在加拉帕戈斯群岛周围的掠夺式捕捞行为，这引起了我们在厄瓜多尔的朋友们的警惕。
看，这些不是个例。正如我上个月在尼克松图书馆所说，热爱自由的国家必须团结起来，直面中共咄咄逼人的行为。好消息是潮流绝对正在转向。“不信任然后并核实”这种中心思想，我想全世界正开始将其视为应对这些挑战的正确方式。
我们在本届行政当局，特朗普行政当局，正在努力去保护美国人免于遭受这些威胁。
四月，我宣布了我们团队的“干净路径倡议”，确保美国人的数据免受不受信任的供应商的伤害。今天，我很高兴地宣布推出五项新的努力以扩大“干净网络”。我来快速地介绍一下它们。
首先，干净运营商。我们正在努力确保不受信任的中国电信公司不在美国和国外目的地之间提供国际电信服务。我与司法部长巴尔、国防部长埃斯珀和国土安全部代理部长沃尔夫一道，敦促美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）撤销并终止中国电信和其他三家提供与美国间双向服务的公司的授权。
其次，我们所说的干净商店。我们希望看到不受信任的中国应用程序被从美国应用程序商店中移除。特朗普总统提到了对TikTok即将采取的行动，而且有充分理由这样做。有着总部位于中国的母公司，TikTok、微信等应用程序对美国公民的个人数据是重大威胁，更不用说是中共的内容审查工具。
第三，干净应用。我们正在努力防止华为和其他不受信任的供应商预先安装最流行的美国应用程序或使其可以下载。我们不希望各公司在华为的侵犯人权行为或中共的监视机器中成为同谋。
第四，干净云端。我们在保护美国人最敏感的个人信息和我们企业最宝贵的知识产权——包括新冠疫苗研究——免于在诸如阿里巴巴、百度、中国移动、中国电信和腾讯等公司所运营的基于云端的系统上受到访问。
美国国务院将与美国商务部等机构一起密切工作，限制中国云服务提供商在美国这里收集、存储和处理大量数据和敏感信息的能力。
第五也是最后一点，干净电缆。我们正在努力确保中共无法损害把我们国家和其他国家连接到全球互联网上的海底电缆所传输的信息。
华为海洋网络公司在多项采购上以远低于其他公司的价格竞标，使用中国国家支持的海底技术把亚洲、太平洋、非洲和欧洲连接起来。
我们不能允许这种情况继续下去。我们呼吁所有热爱自由的国家和公司加入“干净网络”。
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在此阅读英文全文：https://china-cn.edit.usembassy.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-press-availability-08052020/

REMARKS TO THE PRESS
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE
PRESS BRIEFING ROOM
WASHINGTON, D.C.
AUGUST 5, 2020
SECRETARY POMPEO: Well, good afternoon, everyone.
On behalf of the United States, I want to extend our deepest condolences to all those who were affected by the massive explosion at the port of Beirut yesterday. We stand ready to assist the Government of Lebanon and its – as it grapples with this horrible tragedy. You’ll see the United States announce a number of things we intend to do to assist the people of Lebanon in the coming days.
A quick logistical note: On Monday, I’ll leave for the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, and Poland – all great friends of America. It’ll be a very important and productive trip, I expect.
Now, turning to my remarks: I want to start, as I often do, with a few items on Communist China.
Since I was last here, the world has witnessed more examples of CCP efforts to coerce and control its citizens. Other nations and the U.S. have put out a number of statements.
We see it in Hong Kong, where authorities have delayed legislative elections, arrested pro-democracy activists, issued warrants for freedom-loving foreigners, including an American. I urge U.S. citizens to exercise increased caution while traveling to or in any place in China.
We see the CCP’s continuing ambition to control Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. And I commend the Treasury Department for using its Global Magnitsky authorities against human-rights violators there just this past week.
And we see, too, the CCP’s lawlessness elsewhere in the world. I issued a statement on Sunday about the Chinese-flagged vessels’ predatory fishing practices around the Galapagos Islands, which has alarmed our friends in Ecuador.
Look, these aren’t one-offs. As I said at the Nixon Library this month, freedom-loving nations must come together to confront the CCP’s aggressive behavior. And the good news is the tide is absolutely turning. The central idea of distrust and then verify, I think the world is coming to see as the right approach to responding to these challenges.
And we are working in this administration, the Trump administration, hard to protect Americans from those threats.
In April, I announced our team’s Clean Path initiative to keep Americans’ data safe from untrusted vendors. Today, I’m pleased to announce the expansion of the Clean Network with the launch of five new lines of effort. I’ll walk through them quickly.
First, Clean Carrier. We are working to ensure that untrusted Chinese telecom companies don’t provide international telecommunications services between the United States and foreign destinations.
I join Attorney General Barr, Secretary Esper, and Acting Secretary Wolf in urging the FCC to revoke and terminate the authorizations of China Telecom and three other companies providing services to and from the United States.
Second, we call Clean Store. We want to see untrusted Chinese apps removed from U.S. app stores. President Trump has mentioned impending action on TikTok, and for good reason. With parent companies based in China, apps like TikTok, WeChat, and others are significant threats to the personal data of American citizens, not to mention tools for CCP content censorship.
Third, Clean Apps. We’re working to prevent Huawei and other untrusted vendors from pre-installing or making available for download the most popular U.S. apps. We don’t want companies to be complicit in Huawei’s human rights abuses or the CCP’s surveillance apparatus.
Fourth, Clean Cloud. We’re protecting Americans’ most sensitive personal information and our businesses’ most valuable intellectual property – including COVID vaccine research – from being accessed on cloud-based systems run by companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom, and Tencent.
The State Department will work closely with Commerce and other agencies to limit the ability of Chinese cloud service providers to collect, to store, and to process vast amounts of data and sensitive information here in the United States.
Fifth and finally, Clean Cable. We’re working to ensure that the CCP can’t compromise information carried by the undersea cables that connect our country and others to the global internet.
Huawei Marine significantly underbids other companies on multiple procurements to connect Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and Europe using Chinese state-backed underseas technology.
We can’t allow that to continue. We call on all freedom-loving nations and companies to join the Clean Network.
The Trump administration’s work to secure our democracy continues in other ways as well:
The Department of State’s Global Engagement Center is releasing a special report today on Russian disinformation and propaganda, focusing especially on proxy sites.
Speaking of Russia and other malign actors:
The State Department’s Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person who, acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, interferes with U.S. elections by engaging in certain criminal cyber activities.
A few comments on the Middle East:
We welcome the agreement between the Republic of Yemen Government and the Southern Transitional Council to advance the terms of the Riyadh Agreement, which will pave the way for a unified government that can counter Houthi aggression.
We urge all the parties to implement the agreement’s terms, and support the UN special envoy’s efforts to broker a country-wide political settlement.
Of course, the conflict in Yemen has raged in large part because of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s illegal arms transfers to the Houthis.
And so next week the United States will put forward a resolution in the Security Council to extend the arms embargo on Iran.
The Security Council’s mission is to maintain “international peace and security.”
The Council would make an absolute mockery of that mission if it allowed the number-one state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell weapons freely.
The United States has conducted now a years-long diplomacy on this matter. We have a bipartisan consensus in Congress. We have a 13-year consensus on the Council. And the proposal we put forward is eminently reasonable.
One way or another – one way or another, we will do the right thing. We will ensure that the arms embargo is extended.
And staying on United Nations matters for just a moment, it’s outrageous that the Human Rights Council would offer to seat Cuba, a brutal dictatorship that traffic its own doctors under the guise of humanitarian missions. No country should vote Cuba onto the Council.
Two quick items on religious freedom:
First, on behalf of President Trump and the American people, I want to express our solidarity with the Yezidi people as we commemorate the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the ISIS genocide. Much has been done by our administration to help Iraqis recover, but much more work remains.
And on a brighter note, I commend the progress that Sudan is making to protect religious freedom in its country as the country transitions away from radical Islamist rule.
Last month, the civilian-led transitional government abolished apostasy as a crime – a solid step forward.
Our global efforts to – as I close – to fight the pandemic continue.
This week the State Department and USAID are releasing an incremental $53 million in new humanitarian and economic assistance to help vulnerable people and partners continue to fight this deadly virus, bringing our total to more than $1.6 billion.
We will also be launching a $10 million COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement and Partnership Fund to invest that $10 million in promising new products, markets, and ideas for mitigating the economic impacts of the pandemic.
And with that, I’m happy to take some questions.
MR BROWN: Okay. For our first question we’ll go to the phone lines. And if we can go to the line of Matt Lee, please.
QUESTION: Secretary, can you hear me?
SECRETARY POMPEO: Matt, I can barely hear you.
QUESTION: Barely?
SECRETARY POMPEO: There you go.
QUESTION: Let me take you off speaker and – how’s that? Better now?
SECRETARY POMPEO: Yes, much better, Matt.
QUESTION: Yeah, okay. Thank you. Two real quick ones. One on Iran: You said that one way or the other – one way or another we will ensure the embargo gets extended. Does that mean that in the highly likely event that your resolution fails, you will move to invoke snapback? And secondly, on the acting (inaudible), are you concerned at all that his departure – and particularly after such a short time – will further sideline the work of the inspector general office? Thank you.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Matt, let me try to take the second one; you broke up a little bit. You asked a question I think about the departure of acting IG Steve Akard. He left to go back home. This happens; I don’t have anything more to add to that.
As for Iran, we’ve made clear – and I don’t want to be too cute by half – our mission set is unambiguous. The President’s guidance is very, very clear: We’re not going to let the arms embargo expire on October 18th of this year. It’s one of the central failings of the JCPOA and a bad thing for the world to allow Iran to buy and sell – you’ve seen the comments in the press about a deal between Iran and China. There are nations lining up to sell weapons that will destabilize the Middle East, put Israel at risk, put Europe at risk, risk American lives as well. We’re not going to let it happen. And so we’re using every diplomatic tool we have in the toolkit.
I don’t want to – as I said, I don’t want to be too cute. We’re deeply aware that snapback is an option that’s available to the United States, and we’re going to do everything within America’s power to ensure that that arms embargo is extended. And I’m confident that we will be successful.
MR BROWN: Okay. Let’s go in the back to Kristina.
QUESTION: Great. Thank you so much, Mr. Secretary. Can you talk a little bit about the decision to send Secretary Azar to Taiwan, what the message is behind this trip? And as you probably know, the Chinese Communist Government says the visit endangers peace and stability, and it’s sending the wrong signals, and is urging for the trip not to proceed. What is your response to that?
SECRETARY POMPEO: I won’t say anything about the decision other than the cabinet members have traveled to Taiwan previously. This is consistent with policies of previous times. He’s going there with a deep and important purpose. We’re still in a global pandemic. He’s going to go there and talk about Taiwan has had some significant success in how they have handled this. We have wanted them to be part of the conversations at the World Health Assembly that – China has prevented that from happening. And so he’ll go there and talk to them about public health issues as they relate to how we all move forward with respect to how we handle COVID and the opportunity for therapeutics and a vaccine as we move forward. And we welcome the expertise that Taiwan brings to that and he’ll have, I think, important conversations with them about that.
MR BROWN: Last question. Go ahead.
QUESTION: Thank you.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Yes, sir.
QUESTION: So tomorrow and August 9th marks 75 years since the United States unleased the first atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So could you tell us your opinion on nuclear arms control, including the future of the New START Treaty between U.S. and Russia?
SECRETARY POMPEO: Yeah. So President Trump, literally since I first met him, first in my role as CIA director and now as Secretary of State, has made clear one of his top priorities is ensuring that we don’t have a really bad day in the world as a result of a nuclear weapon being used, and so we have worked along multiple fronts. For example, we left the INF Treaty because the Russians weren’t complying with that and that was – that had the risk of being destabilizing, because when you have an arms control agreement and only one of the two parties is complying, you have created strategic risk.
But in the last handful of months, we’ve been working diligently to get the three nations that have the largest nuclear capabilities – the United States, Russia, and China – to have a strategic dialogue about how we move forward together to decrease the risk to the world that these massive weapons are used, and we’ve made progress with the Russians. We’ve had two good gatherings; I hope we’ll have one before too long. And we are hopeful that the Chinese will choose to participate. We think it’s in their best interest. We know it’s in the best interest of the world. And for nations that assert they want win-win solutions, that they want good outcomes, that they want to be a player on a global stage, they now have moved to a point where they need to, like the United States and Russia, be prepared to engage in conversations about how you create a strategic situation that reduces the risk that nuclear weapons will be used at any time or any place anywhere in the world.
I hope they’ll participate in that. We hope the Russians will urge them to participate in that and we hope the whole world will come to understand that it’s very important that those three nuclear powers with significant resources and capabilities will all come together to create a more robust, more stable strategic situation with respect to the risks not only of the use of nuclear weapons, but on their proliferation as well.
Great. Thank you, everyone. Have a great day. Thank you.