ハンツマン中国駐在米大使、中国外交を批判

【米公電流出】中国外交「けんか早く、世界で友失う」　日本も中国を非難と米大使
2010.12.7 13:25

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　英紙ガーディアンは６日までに、中国が「けんか早い」外交姿勢のために「世界中で友人を失っている」とする公電を米国のハンツマン駐中国大使が送っていたと報じた。内部告発サイト「ウィキリークス」が提供した文書に基づいている。

　公電は今年２月付で、日本当局者の発言を引用し、沖縄県・尖閣諸島をめぐり中国船舶が「攻撃性を増大」したため、日本の船との「危険な遭遇が多数起きた」と報告している。

　また別の日本外交官は、首脳会談の準備に際して中国当局者が「攻撃的で（対処するのが）難しい」と漏らしたという。

　報道によるとハンツマン大使は、中国外交を「力を見せびらかし、独断的」だと非難。欧州や日本、インドの外交官も中国を非難していると指摘した。（共同）


＊ 関連して参考　本ブログ 2010/10/15 今や世界が中国に対して「ノー」という時代
ハンツマン大使について　本ブログ 2009/12/22 　読めないモルモン教会に対する中国の門戸解放

英文原文
http://latestchina.com/article/?rid=24374

WikiLeaks cables:
'Aggressive' China losing friends around the world
Published: 12/4/2010 1:30:01 PM GMT
Original Cached

China's "newly pugnacious" foreign policy is "losing friends worldwide", the US ambassador to Beijing argued in a cable last February.

European diplomats were "most vocal", although Indian and Japanese counterparts voiced similar complaints, Jon Huntsman wrote. In other dispatches US diplomats quote unhappy African officials.

In his cable, entitled "Stomp around and carry a small stick: China's new 'global assertiveness' raises hackles, but has more form than substance", he accused Beijing of "muscle-flexing, triumphalism and assertiveness", but added that some observers saw it as rhetoric designed to appeal to Chinese public opinion. "Numerous third-country diplomats have complained to us that dealing with China has become more difficult in the past year," Huntsman reported. His examples included:

* A British diplomat saying that Chinese officials' behaviour at the Copenhagen climate change summit was "shocking" and so rude and arrogant that the UK and French complained formally.

* The Indian ambassador to Beijing requesting closer co-operation with the US because of "China's more aggressive approach".

* Japanese diplomats complaining that officials were "aggressive and difficult" during summit preparations.

* Another Japanese official describing rising tensions in the East China Sea, saying that "the increased aggressiveness of Chinese 'coastguard' and naval units… had provoked 'many dangerous encounters' with Japanese civilian and self-defence force ships".

The official said Japan had not reported all the incidents. The issue became public in the autumn when Japan arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat for ramming a coastguard vessel near disputed islands.

The cable refers to another dispute that later broke into the open. A Norwegian diplomat said Oslo was unhappy with the trend of bilateral relations, citing the lack of progress in human rights discussions and referring to the jailing of writer Liu Xiaobo. China reacted angrily when Norway's Nobel committee gave the peace prize to Liu recently.

The main tensions appear to be with China's neighbours or established western powers. In several cables US diplomats note China's growing influence in Latin America and Africa. One cable notes the Kenyan ambassador stressing the benefits of China's role on the continent and saying Africa has nothing to gain if the US and China co-operate.

Juliu Ole Sunkuli "claimed that Africa was better off thanks to China's practical, bilateral approach to development assistance and was concerned that this would be changed by 'western' interference… Sunkuli said Africans were frustrated by western insistence on capacity building, which translated, in his eyes, into conferences and seminars. They instead preferred China's focus on infrastructure and tangible projects."

Other cables suggested some African diplomats felt "a degree of suspicion and resentment" about China's role. A Nigerian official suggested poorer countries were "coerced" into aid-for-resources deals. Elsewhere a Moroccan diplomat commented: "China will never play the role of a global leader if it treats its trade partners so poorly."

Assessing US-China relations at the start of 2009, the then US ambassador to China, Clark Randt, saw growing similarities in relations with the rest of the world. "By the end of the next 30 years China should no longer be able to portray itself as the representative of lesser developed countries. This does not mean that it will necessarily identify with the more developed, mainly western countries; it well might choose to pursue some uniquely Chinese path… Even so, China's growing position as a nation increasingly distinct from the less developed world may expand our common interests." It was possible China "will come to be identified by the average citizen in less developed countries not as 'one of us' but as 'one of them'."