蔡总统美国哥伦比亚大学演说全文: 台湾在不可能的环境下成就了可能

作者:change?  于 2019-7-13 22:04 发表于 最热闹的华人社交网络--贝壳村

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总统蔡英文今天在美国大学发表,总统哥大致词全文如下:

在不可能的环境下成就了可能

能受邀来这所以言论自由及多元包容著称的校园演讲,我实在备感荣幸。我在1980年毕业于康乃尔大学,再度回到久违的校园,勾起我许多的回忆。虽然,或许在场有人会说,任何纽约市以外的校园都不能算是纽约。

然而我在1979年夏天曾经真正住过纽约,协助哥伦比亚大学东亚研究所的一位教授做研究。而我在通过纽约州律师考试后,就更常走访纽约,有时是在前往华府做贸易谈判时会经过纽约。

对一个来自当时尚未完全化的台湾的法律系学生来说,1980年代的纽约生活真的令我眼界大开,多元化和不同的见解竟然才是正常。我很高兴,从这讲台放眼望出去,一切都如此熟悉,丝毫未曾改变。

今天,我来这里要讲的是有关“改变”的故事,发生在台湾的故事。一个位居中国大陆沿海的小岛如何设定民主化的进程,进而为世界各国的民主转型树立标竿。

我们在政治转型初期,很多人说在中国阴影的笼罩下,我们的民主不可能存活下来。然而,现在台湾已然成为民主社会和政治制度蓬勃发展的居所。

有人说,人口只有两千三百万而且资源匮乏的小岛,无法成为经济的主要推手,然而现在我们已经变成美国的第11大贸易伙伴了。

有人说,先进的价值观无法于东亚社会生根。但今天,我是以台湾第一位女总统的身分站在各位面前。

简言之,台湾就是在不可能的环境下成就了可能。许多人称台湾为“民主奇迹”,但我不是奇迹的信徒。我相信的是人民的意志,以及对更美好未来的愿景。

香港的“一国两制”经验 明白揭破了独裁和民主无法共存的事实

和美国一样,在我们追求民主的路径上滴满了先人的血汗及泪水。现在轮到我们接下他们的棒子,继续高举火炬,为还在往民主道路奋力挣扎的,照亮前途。

我们背负的责任重大,这条路并不好走。因为台湾民主当今所面临的挑战,和数十年前我们所克服的截然不同。而21世纪所有民主国家都面临相同的挑战。全世界的自由都正遭遇到空前未有的威胁。

我们看到这个威胁正在冲击香港,年轻人没有管道发声,只好走上街头为民主自由拚搏。我们台湾人民决心和他们站在一起。

香港的“一国两制”经验,向世界明白揭破了独裁和民主无法共存的事实。因为独裁政权只要一逮到机会,即使是一丝的民主微光,也会毫不留情地闷熄,过程可能是渐进的,但手法精巧到人们都无法察觉。

想像一下:独裁势力伸入我们的日常生活,突然间,在自己家的书店卖某本书,就违法了;在社群媒体贴文批评某项新政策,就遭传审讯。当你突然察觉到一股看不见的势力在监视你的一举一动,一切都已经太迟了。

你开始审查自己的言论和想法,不再和朋友讨论时事,因为害怕被窃听,大部分时间都提心吊胆的前瞻后顾,根本无法好好面对未来。

我刚刚描述的未来听起来也许不可能发生,与哥伦比亚大学的自由校园完全迥异。但在现实中,这种情形就在我们眼前发生。这也就是为什么现在比以往更需要让全世界听到台湾的故事。

独裁政府企图利用民主社会的新闻自由 在我们之间挑拨对立

我们的故事是坚毅不挠的故事,是力抗万难,坚守民主的故事。我们的故事在诉说,为什么核心价值如此的重要。台海两岸在文化及政治上的歧异日趋扩大。台湾选择言论自由、人权及法治的每一天,都让我们与独裁政权渐行渐远。我们的故事,乃至我们的存在,是唤醒世界的警钟,让大家醒悟过来,民主是人类最珍贵的资产,必须我们不惜代价地捍卫守护。

台湾每天都站在民主的最前线,面对资讯时代的新威胁,台湾并不孤单。事实上,世界各地无论大国或小国,现在每天都在对抗渗透和认知战。独裁政府企图利用民主社会的新闻自由,在我们之间挑拨对立,要让我们怀疑我们的政治制度,好让我们对民主失落信心。

台湾多年来一直站在这场战争的前线,我们有太多经验可以与世界分享。在数位化时代,假讯息可以在短短数小时内积非成是,而因应这个威胁最困难之处,是如何在国家安全和言论自由间求取平衡。台湾已经迈出了第一步,将寻找这个问题的答案列为首要之务。

我们已经强化了辨识及防止散布假讯息的法制架构。我们已经开始扫荡外部势力制造的泄密事件。让我们与各国密切分享情资,我们就能为降低这种威胁做出更多贡献。然而民主还面临其他挑战,特别是暗藏算计的经济诱惑。

世界上许多国家都被迫在民主与经济发展间做出抉择,而正确的选择似乎变得日渐困难。我担任总统以来,台湾不断向世界证明,民主和经济成长不仅相辅相成,更是紧密不可分。

我们的经济依赖中国市场,从而限缩了我们在两岸事务的自主权,中国借此要胁,渗透我们的社会,并试图以此为筹码,要骗取我们的民主。

但台湾已决心开辟一条新路来发展经济,如果民主不能活化激发创意和新思维,那么民主的意义又何在?我们着手经济转型,打造有利的投资环境,海外台商回流数已创下新纪录。同时,许多外商,特别是一些主要外商公司也正在扩张在台营运。

单就今年,这些企业就在台湾投资了数十亿美元,创造了上万个就业机会。投资的流入在未来几年将继续成长。我们努力在以规范为基础的区域贸易秩序中扮演建设性的角色,并与南亚和东南亚市场建立更强劲的经贸连结。

我们的“新南向政策”在过去3年来为区域带来惊人的贸易成长,更重要的是,这种成长具永续性。当若干国家落入隐藏债务陷阱时,我们仍然致力推动共荣发展的永续合作。而这点,我们与南亚和东南亚的合作伙伴关系就是彼此受惠的最好明证。

民主国家团结时最强 分裂时最弱

在中国一心掠夺我们的邦交国来孤立我们时,我们全心推动计划,真实帮助这些国家成为更宜居的地方。我们在世界各国,协助建构经济民主实力,培养21世纪所需的劳动力,以及建立透明的硬件和数位化基础设施。台湾又再一次为全球提出建设性的发展模式。我们拒绝参与掠夺,并且一再证明诚实和开放式的合作会带来真正的长期成果。

我们因应美中贸易战的挑战时,民主并没有阻碍我们,相反的,幸亏是我们的民主才让我们克竟其功。民主制度使我们拥抱多元和创新的思维,当常规不再适用,我们仍能灵活应变,打破框架。很多人问我如何在民主与经济成长之间作出抉择,我的答案很清楚,就是:两者密不可分。

历史告诉我们,民主国家团结时最强,分裂时最弱。理念相近国家要通力在国际社会上将我们的价值观传承给下一代,如果没有台湾,形同失去一个关键的链结。

台湾是一个宝贵罕见的例子,曾经走过独裁,现在已大力吹起民主号角,因此,自由民主的台湾,现在比以往更加迫切需要国际社会的支持。台湾的生存不只关乎两岸关系,我们是印太地区重要的民主堡垒,全世界都在密切注视我们即将要为未来民主开创的先例。

台湾是全球理念相近国家社群的一员,我知道我们并不孤单。美国前总统胡佛曾经说过:“自由是一扇敞开的窗,而人类精神与人类尊严的阳光就从这扇窗倾泻而下。”

我们面临的挑战可能令人却步,但有国际社会同行,台湾会坚定不移。只要我们选择打开自由之窗,眺望前方未来,我们就可以一起让这缕阳光照耀全世界的每个角落。

来源:中央社

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复旦大学学者对这篇讲话进行了别开生面的点评

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哥伦比亚大学网站对蔡總統访问的报道之一。

Taiwan President Meets With Students and Faculty

President Tsai Ing-wen, as part of a two-day U.S. tour, participates in an academic discussion with members of the Columbia community. 

July 12, 2019

Tsai arrived in the United States on Thursday amid the objections of China and fraying relations between Beijing and the Trump administration. This was Tsai's first trip as president to New York. Taiwan has an unofficial consular and trade office in the city, but is not a member of the United Nations, though more than a dozen U.N. countries maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

Tsai's two-day stop in New York was part of what her office called the "Journey of Freedom, Democracy and Sustainability" tour, and she spoke firmly of the importance of democracy.

“Each day that Taiwan chooses freedom of speech, human rights and the rule of law is a day that we drift farther from the influences of authoritarianism," Tsai said. "Taiwan stands as a rare example of a country that has both experienced authoritarianism and championed democracy in the modern age."

Tsai won her party's nomination last month to run for a second four-year term in the 2020 presidential election, which is scheduled for Jan. 11, 2020.

While a group of about 50 pro-Taiwan and pro-China demonstrators gathered outside Columbia's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies where she spoke, the crowd was vocal but calm. Inside the hall, those gathered seemed impressed by the president and respectful in their questions about Taiwan's relations with the U.S. and China.

In closing her remarks, Tsai turned to U.S. President Herbert Hoover: "Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

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美国对台湾的空前信任表现在哪里?

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台湾新纪录!心脏停跳50天换心成功

National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) vice superintendent Yu Chong-jen, sixth left, NTUH Cardiovascular Center director Chen Yih-sharng, seventh left, cut a cake with their patient, surnamed Chen, eighth left, at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.Photo: CNA

National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) yesterday said that it has carried out a heart transplant on a woman whose heart had stopped beating 50 days before, marking a new record in the nation.

The 38-year-old woman surnamed Chen (陳) was in October last year stung by a bee while visiting Japan and she developed an acute fever and heart failure that led to cardiac arrest shortly after she returned to Taiwan.

The hospital immediately applied extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and waited for a suitable donor heart for transplant, as four available donor hearts were incompatible.

NTUH Cardiovascular Center director Chen Yih-sharng (陳益祥) yesterday said that the woman had acute myocarditis caused by an allergic reaction to the bee sting and her heart was barely beating when she was hospitalized.

After a cardiac ultrasound showed that her heart was hardly functioning, two ECMO systems were used to keep her alive while waiting for a transplant, he said.

She had complications — including acute kidney failure and small blood vessel blockage due to blood clots — during the wait, so the surgical team had to come up with a desensitization plan to remove harmful antibodies from her blood to reduce the risk of her body rejecting a transplant, he added.

“We had to use immunological methods to desensitize her body to reduce the risk of transplant rejection, but it was not totally without danger, because the use of immunosuppressive agents might lead to infections,” Chen Yih-sharng said.

A transplant was finally completed in December last year and the new heart has been functioning properly over the past six months, he said.

The woman could have had a stroke at any time during the waiting period and the surgical team had growing concerns that she would remain in a vegetative state even after the transplant, Chen Yih-sharng said, but added that she still demonstrated slight reactions, a computed tomography scan showed no cranial bleeding and her family was very supportive.

The woman yesterday said that at the time, she could hear sounds around her, but could not move her body.

Noting that at the time she needed transfusions of up to 3 liters of blood per day, she expressed gratitude to all involved in saving her life.

The woman’s husband, surnamed Chin (秦), said that at first, after being informed of the situation in the intensive care unit, he could not accept that his wife’s heart had stopped beating.

However, because he did not want to give up hope, he said that he visited and talked to her several times a day while she waited for a donor heart.

The average waiting period for a heart transplant at NTHU is about 40 days, Chen Yih-sharng said.

Family support was also very important, because it allowed the surgical team to put all their efforts into saving the woman, he added.






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