拜登在歡迎習近平的午宴上的講話(中文/English)

副總統拜登在歡迎中國國家副主席習近平的午宴上的講話

白宮

副總統辦公室
2012年2月17日

約瑟夫·拜登副總統在歡迎中華人民共和國副主席習近平的午宴上的講話

JW萬豪酒店
加利福尼亞州洛杉磯市


副總統拜登：非常感謝。市長先生，首先請允許我感謝您的盛情款待。回到洛杉磯感覺不錯，我還要感謝傑瑞·布朗（Jerry Brown)州長今天對我們的招待。

很榮幸能和你們一起歡迎習近平副主席和所有這些從中國來到這裡的客人，包括各省的代表和官方代表團。

今天有人問我與習近平副主席在中國及在這裡共處這麼長時間有什麼感受，我當時曾說，現在我再說一遍——了解他本人是一大樂事。

副主席和我共同度過的時間比預計的要長，是兩國總統和主席表示並指示我們更多地彼此了解時我們所沒有想到的。

我們去年在義大利曾有機會在一起，當時我們代表我們的政府在那裡慶祝義大利統一150周年。副主席更是熱情地招待我在中國訪問了4天，先在北京，然後又陪我到成都。

我可以真心實意地說，我一直期待著有機會回報他對我的盛情款待，我和他來到洛杉磯就是那次訪問的延伸。

我猜想在座的各位都走過許多地方，但我必須告訴你們，我這位同仁讓我最佩服的是他令人難以置信的體能。(笑聲)
自他星期一抵達美國開始，他先與基辛格博士（Kissiner)、布熱津斯基（Zbig
Brzezinski)和一些非常嚴肅認真的美國外交家和戰略家會面；第二天，我覺得他花了13或14小時與我會面，從清晨就開始，持續到在我家與我們的內閣成員和其他人共進晚餐，直到那天深夜才結束。

還有呢州長，第二天早上，他便早早起身前往艾奧瓦州的馬斯卡廷(Muscatine)，柯林頓國務卿和我都說，虧得是他不是我們。(笑聲)
我認為他在馬斯卡廷贏得的代表人數比我們倆都多。（笑聲和掌聲
）但我必須——我要告訴你們，這正是一個人品格的寫照。他想回到那裡與那些27年前招待過他的人續舊並感謝他們。

隨後，為了證明他充沛的精力，他來到了洛杉磯，並要從洛杉磯這裡啟程前往愛爾蘭，然後去土耳其。(笑聲)
我能向他提供幫助的唯一一個地方是愛爾蘭。我能在那裡當選。(笑聲)

副主席先生，您和我拿出大量的時間一起活動，這在現代外交史上是相當罕見的。我還要說，我們都受到觸動——我說的是真心話——有感於您對我們國家的關心、您要結識我國人民的願望以及您在這裡建立的個人關係。這給我們留下了深刻的印象。

在座的加利福尼亞州各位前州長和現任州長都會告訴你，加利福尼亞人比世界任何地區的人都更清楚，美國是一個太平洋國家。

加利福尼亞人世世代代都把亞太地區視為其繁榮的一個關鍵因素。而現在，它對我們及全體美國人民讓美國人重返工作崗位並擴大機會的努力是至關重要的。

我可以說，如果我們將過去6個月中的時間加起來，副主席和我可能已進行了20
小時的單獨對話。我們已經指出，我們15個最大的出口市場——美國最大的出口市場——其中有7個在亞洲，中國如今居首位。僅去年一年，美國就對中國出口了價值1000多億美元的商品和服務，支持著成千上萬的美國就業機會。這些與出口相關的工作都是高質高薪的工作，其價值估計比美國其他所有工作機會要高出15%以上。



副主席先生，正如我們所討論的，美國經濟增長越快，中國公民因此受益也將越多。在我們共同努力發展和鞏固這一關係時，存在的潛力很大。副主席在他希望看到的變化上，態度已很明確；我在希望看到的——我們希望在貿易和經濟關係上看到的變化上，態度同樣也很明確。

副主席表示，中國希望增加對美國的投資。我們正在努力提供便利，在座有許多州長正在期待著。（笑聲）多謝我們的駱家輝大使（Gary
Locke）做出的傑出努力，請你站起來，讓大家看到你。（掌聲）駱家輝大使曾擔任商務部長，還做過華盛頓州長。他的特點是實幹，而且效率高。

在大使的領導下，我們現在每年向中國學生、旅遊者以及商務人員簽發100多萬份簽證，簽證速度比過去任何時候都快。（掌聲）我猜鼓掌的是學生。（笑聲）我已說明了我們必須為美國公司和工人創造的條件。我們也正在這方面取得真正的進展。

我們非常希望看到更多的公司能夠在中國出售商品和服務產品。習副主席已承諾將促使其成為現實。在最近這次訪問中，中國已向美國汽車保險公司開放了市場，並採取了具體步驟以加強知識產權，中國還有對稅制進行改革的計劃。這將有助於通過降低所謂奢侈品的稅率來增加對美國商品和服務產品的需求。

正如歐巴馬總統和我向副主席及各位所說的，你們許多人還都親自看到過：中國在最短的時間內取得了最顯著的進展，歷史上任何其他國家可能都無法與之相比。本屆政府以及我們的國家歡迎這些成就。我認為在座的美國商界領袖也會贊同我們都歡迎這一競爭的說法。我知道，美國工人歡迎這一競爭。這不僅促使我們的公司開發更好的產品和服務、我們的政府制定更好的政策，還鼓勵我們的工人更樂於合作、更加努力，並以此提高生產力。



然而，我們討論的核心是，如果競爭規則是公平的並且得到遵守，那麼人人都將從競爭中獲益。因此，我們將繼續與副主席及中國政府合作，以確保大家在公平的競爭環境中按同樣的規則行事。我確信，我認為副主席也會這麼認為，即我們本周進行的坦誠的、可持續的對話，能夠並將會建設更牢固的關係，以造福我們兩國及兩國人民。



女士們、先生們，我非常榮幸地向各位介紹中國國家副主席，你們在今後多年中將更多地了解他。女士們、先生們，有請我的朋友，習副主席。（掌聲）

REMARKS BY VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN
AT A LUNCH IN HONOR OF VICE PRESIDENT XI JINPING
OF THE PEOPLE』S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

J.W. Marriott
Los Angeles, California

VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN:  Thank you very much.  Mr. Mayor, let me begin
by thanking you for your hospitality.  It』s good to be back in Los
Angeles, and I want to thank Governor Jerry Brown for hosting us as
well today.

It』s an honor to join you in welcoming Vice President Xi and all of
those who have traveled from China to be here, from the provinces as
well as the official delegation.

I was asked today what it』s like to spend so much time with Vice
President Xi, both in China and here, and I indicated then and I』ll
say it again -- it』s been a great pleasure getting to know him
personally.

The Vice President and I have gotten to spend more time with one
another than I think either of us anticipated when both our Presidents
indicated and instructed us to get to know one another better.

We had the opportunity to spend some time together last year in Italy
when we both were there representing our governments to celebrate the
unification of Italy at its 150th anniversary.  And the Vice President
was kind enough to host me for four days in China, both in Beijing and
traveling to Chengdu with me.

And I can say with real sincerity that I』ve been looking forward to
the opportunity to return the hospitality that he has shown to me, and
this is the capstone to that visit with he and I here in Los Angeles.

I suspect all of you in this audience have traveled a great deal, and
I must tell you, the thing I have come to admire about my colleague is
his incredible physical stamina.  (Laughter.)  Since he arrived in the
United States on Monday, he started off with Dr. Kissinger and Zbig
Brzezinski and a number of very serious American diplomats and
strategists, and the next day he spent I think 13 or 14 hours with me,
starting early in the morning and going straight through to a dinner
at my home with members of our Cabinet and others ending late that
night.

And Governor, the next morning he left early to go to Muscatine, Iowa,
and Secretary Clinton and I said, better him than us.  (Laughter.)  I
think he got more delegates than either of us in Muscatine.  (Laughter
and applause.)  But I must -- I』m just telling you, it』s the measure
of the man.  He wanted to go back and reacquaint himself with and
thank the people who had been hospitable to him 27 years earlier.

And then just to prove his stamina he came to Los Angeles, and from
here he leaves from Los Angeles to Ireland on his way to Turkey.
(Laughter.)  The only place I can really help him is in Ireland.  I
can get elected there.  (Laughter.)

Mr. Vice President, you and I have spent a substantial amount of time
together, and that』s fairly rare in modern diplomacy.  And let me add
that we』ve all been touched -- and I mean this sincerely -- by your
interest in our country, your desire to meet our people, and by the
personal relationships you』re forging here.  It』s made a deep
impression.

As the former governors of California are in the room, as well as the
present governor can tell you, there are no people in the world that
know better than the people of California, that the United States of
America is a Pacific nation.

For generations, Californians have looked to the Asian-Pacific region
as a critical element of their prosperity.  And now, it is critical to
our efforts, all of America's efforts, to put Americans back to work
and expand opportunity.

I would venture to say, if we added up the hours in the last six
months, the Vice President and I have probably spent 20 hours alone in
conversation.  And we've pointed out that seven of our 15 largest
export markets -- America's export markets -- are in Asia, with China
now the foremost among them.  Last year alone, the United States
exported to China more than $100 billion worth of goods and services,
supporting hundreds of thousands of American jobs.  And those jobs
that are tied to exports are quality, high-paying jobs, estimated to
be worth more than 15 percent more than all other jobs in America.

And Mr. Vice President, as we've discussed, the faster the U.S.
economy grows, the more Chinese citizens will benefit as well.  So
there is a great potential for both of us in working together to
increase and solidify this relationship.  The Vice President has been
straightforward in the changes he'd like to see, and I have been
equally as straightforward in the changes that I'd like to -- we'd
like to see in our trade and economic relationship.

The Vice President indicated that China wants to invest more in the
United States.  And we're working to make that easier, and there's a
whole lot of governors here who are looking forward to that.
(Laughter.)  And thanks to the great work of our ambassador, Gary
Locke -- and Gary, stand up so everybody can see you.  (Applause.)
Ambassador Locke was the Secretary of Commerce, as well as the -- when
he was governor of the state of Washington.  His hallmark is getting
things done, and getting them done quickly.

Under the ambassador's leadership, we are now issuing more than a
million visas a year -- faster than ever before -- to Chinese
students, to tourists, as well as to businesspeople.  (Applause.)  I
assume that came from a student.  (Laughter.)  And I've explained the
things that we need to see for American companies and workers.  Here
too, we're making real progress.

We very much want to see more of our businesses able to sell their
goods and services in China.  And Vice President Xi has committed to
help make that possible.  In this recent visit, China has opened its
market to American auto insurers and has taken concrete steps to
enforce intellectual property rights, and it has plans to reform its
tax system, which will help increase demand for American goods and
services by lowering taxes on so-called luxury goods.

As President Obama and I have told the Vice President and all of you
-- and many of you have witnessed personally -- China has made the
most remarkable progress in the shortest amount of time than maybe any
country in history.  And we in our administration and in this country
welcome those gains.  And I think American business leaders in this
room will agree that we all welcome the competition.  I know American
workers welcome the competition.  It not only pushes our companies to
develop better products and services and our government to craft
better policies, but it encourages our workers to be more cooperative
[sic] and to work even harder, increasing productivity.

But the crux of our discussions is that competition only benefits
everyone if the rules to the game are fair and followed.  So we will
continue to work with the Vice President and the Chinese government to
make sure that everyone is playing by the same rules on a level
playing field.  I strongly believe, and I think Vice President Xi does
as well, that the honest, sustained dialogue we've had this week can
and will build a stronger relationship that benefits both our nations
and our people.

And ladies and gentlemen, it is now my great pleasure to introduce to
you the Vice President of China, a man you are going to learn a great
deal more about for a good number of years, ladies and gentlemen, my
friend, Vice President Xi.  (Applause.)