Liu Xin: On August 2, U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi sneaked into Taiwan, becoming the first U.S. Speaker to visit the island in 25 years. The trip has drawn concerted criticism around the world for her reckless, high-profile, and unnecessary provocation at a time when relations between China and the U.S. were already at an all-time low. 刘欣：8月2日，美国众议院议长佩洛西窜访台湾，成为25年来首次降落台湾的美国众议院议长。在中美关系已经处于历史低点之时，她此次不计后果、高调且不必要的挑衅，招来了世界各地的一致批评。She touts the trip as a victory for democracy. But in the "great democratic country" she came from, things don't look too pretty. The economy is getting worse by the day, people are getting killed in the streets due to rampant gun violence, and women are denied their rights over their own body.Things are bad even in her own home. California has had more than 90,000 COVID-19 deaths, and another emergency over monkeypox virus was just announced. 她将此行吹捧为民主的胜利，但她自己所谓“伟大的民主国家”情况却不太妙。经济日益恶化，枪支暴力泛滥导致人们暴尸街头，女性则丧失了支配自己身体的权利。在她所代表的加尼福尼亚州，情况也很糟糕。该州累计已有9万多人死于新冠肺炎，又刚刚宣布因猴痘疫情进入紧急状态。Yet, the speaker left that mess for a foreign trip. Why is that? What kind of politician has she been? Welcome to a special production brought to you by the Point with me LIU Xin, coming to you from Beijing. Today we will take a look back into political life of Nancy Pelosi, a vain opportunistic politician who is out there only for herself. 原因何在？她到底是一位什么样的政客?欢迎来到《视点》特别节目，我是刘欣， 我在北京，今天我们将回顾虚荣的机会主义政客——南希·佩洛西的政治生涯。Liu Xin: Nancy Pelosi was born into a family of Italian immigrants. She was the only daughter and the youngest of seven children. Pelosi's father, Thomas D'Alessandro Jr., was a longtime mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and her mother was his political organizer. 刘欣：南希·佩洛西出生在一个意大利移民家庭。她是家里唯一的女儿，也是七个孩子中最小的一个。佩洛西的父亲小托马斯·达历山德罗曾长期担任马里兰州巴尔的摩市市长，而她的母亲是其政治活动组织者。Growing up in a political family, she was steeped in a culture that can be described as "machine politics in the east." Politicians there get things done with the single goal of getting votes. The word "machine" comes from the ability to turn out the votes needed to get its members elected and the process becomes a routine – reliable, and even literally mechanical. 佩洛西成长于一个政治世家，长期在美国东部“机器政治”文化氛围中耳濡目染。在美国东部一些地方，政客做事的唯一目标就是获得选票。“机器”一词源自当地政客为自己的组织争取选票或让其成员当选的能力，这种现象几乎成了一种常规，屡试不爽，有时甚至真的是通过机械方式获得选票。Nancy Pelosi grew up with that machine turning around her 24/7. And after she became a politician herself, she became the embodiment of it. 南希·佩洛西在“机器政治”文化中长大，近墨者黑。成为政客后，她也成了这一理念的化身。Einar Tangen: The ends justify the means for all the time everything that she does. It's a question of what she wants to get done and what is necessary to get it done. So, it's very transactional in nature. That's what she has become.艾那·唐根: 她为了达到目的而不择手段。她只在意自己的目标以及为了达成目标需要做什么。她的政治理念在本质上是在做交易。她的行事风格变成了这样。Li Cheng: Nancy Pelosi has a reputation of being, you know, since 1989, if not earlier, very critical very harsh on China. She made her career when she was a Congresswoman in San Francisco by criticizing China, attacking China. Secondly, there are some interest groups which certainly back her up. This could be military industry compound in the United States. They want to enhance the military tensions which actually can sell weapons.李成：南希·佩洛西一直以来以对中国非常具有批判性、非常刻薄著称。从1989年以来，如果不是更早的话，她在旧金山当众议员时，就通过批评和攻击中国往上爬。另外，有一些利益集团在背后支持她，包括美国的军工集团，他们希望挑起军事紧张，以便出售武器。Liu Xin: One outcome of this culture of transactional politics is that Nancy Pelosi knows how to use power as a weapon to get what she wants, through hypocrisy or multi-standards. Truth doesn't really matter, it's how you frame the story the way you want it, even by lying, and still to be able to get away with it.刘欣：这种交易性政治风格的一个结果就是，南希·佩洛西知道如何利用权力作为武器，通过伪善和多重标准来达到自己的目的。真相并不重要，重要的是你如何按照你想要的方式来构建故事，即使你撒谎，也能全身而退。She always prides herself on being a champion of human rights but turned a blind eye when the U.S. was exposed to have been using torture while interrogating terrorism suspects. 一直标榜自己是人权卫士的她，却对美国在审讯恐怖主义嫌疑人时使用酷刑的事实视而不见。Waterboarding is a technique to use a wet cloth to cover the face and breathing passages of a captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning. One prisoner by the name of Abu Zubaydah told the world he was put through the barbaric torture 83 times in one month alone in August 2002. 水刑是一种用湿布盖住被囚禁者的脸和呼吸通道，使其产生溺水幻觉的手段。一位名叫阿布·祖巴伊达的囚犯向世界讲述了他的亲身经历，仅在2002年8月的一个月内他就遭受了83次这一野蛮酷刑。Records showed that one year after 911 terrorist attacks, the CIA briefed Pelosi together with other senior congressional members extensively on the matter. She was said to be one of the first members of Congress to be informed. 有记录显示，911恐怖袭击事件发生一年后，美国中央情报局向佩洛西和其他资深国会议员详细汇报了此事。据说她是第一批听取汇报的国会议员之一。But Pelosi repeatedly denied she knew that waterboarding was being employed, even claiming that the CIA lied to the Congress. 但是佩洛西一再声称她对水刑的使用不知情，甚至指责中情局对国会撒谎。Nancy Pelosi : We also now know that techniques, including waterboarding, had already been employed and that those briefing me in September 2002, to give me inaccurate and Incomplete Information. 南希·佩洛西：我们目前还获知，（美国）使用了包括水刑在内的审讯手段。2002年9月向我通报情况的人给了我不准确、不完整的信息。Liu Xin: Former CIA Director, Leon Panetta, disputed Pelosi's account. Another senior congress member who sat through the same briefings called her claim "slack-jawing" in an opinion piece on Washington Post. 刘欣：美国中情局前局长利昂·帕内塔对佩洛西的说法提出异议。另一名和她一起听取汇报的资深国会议员在《华盛顿邮报》的一篇评论文章中称她的说法“令他目瞪口呆”。It was not until 2009 when she admitted for the first time that she knew by early 2003 that the CIA had subjected detainees to waterboarding. According to NYT, she claimed she saw little recourse to challenge the practice except by achieving Democratic control of Congress and the White House. 直到2009年，她才首次承认，她在2003年初就知道中情局曾对囚犯施以水刑。据《纽约时报》报道，她声称，除了让民主党控制国会和白宫外，她没有什么办法来挑战这种做法。Einar Tangen: Quite frankly, it's a human value that she always liked American values, which she equates with human rights. She's completely blind to any kind of other system. She's an American exceptionalist. That means that anything America does to maintain its power. And further this idea that the world will fit in one box, it'll be liberal democratic capitalism for all nations on earth. That's where her moral blindness comes...it is not that she if you met her, you would have a sense that she's evil, but what she believes in does evil. She voted against the Iraq war, then she came around and did not denounce the kind of torture and acts. 艾那·唐根：坦率地说，从价值观上来说，她一直痴迷美国价值观，将其等同于人权。她对其他任何一种制度都视而不见。她是美国例外主义者。这意味着美国（为了）维系霸权可以做任何事情。更进一步说就是这个地球上的所有国家只能装进一种盒子，就是“自由民主资本主义”。这就是她道德盲目性的来源……不是说如果你见到她，你就会觉得她是邪恶的，而是她的信仰会制造邪恶。她投票反对发动伊拉克战争，但是与此相悖，她却没有谴责使用酷刑。Liu Xin: On the case of Julian Assange, no records can be found that she spoke out for his human rights and freedom. She called riots in Hong Kong "a beautiful sight to behold," but riots on Capitol Hill "heart-breaking." Pelosi preached democracy for Hong Kong, but never uttered a word about the UK's colonial suppressions there. 刘欣：在朱利安·阿桑奇的案件中，没有任何记录显示她曾为阿桑奇的人权和自由发声。她称香港的骚乱是“一道美丽的风景线”，但国会山的骚乱却令她“心碎”。佩洛西为香港民主“大声疾呼”，却对英国在香港的殖民镇压只字不提。Nancy Pelosi has proved to the world how she is able and willing to take moral shortcuts in order to score political points, personal gains or even convenience. She attacked former President Trump for his incompetence in dealing with the COVID pandemic, even calling the virus the "Trump virus." But she would break social distancing rules simply to have her hair done. But these are nothing compared to other gains she could pocket by gaming the system. 南希·佩洛西向世界证明了她是如何能够并且愿意走道德捷径，以获得政治加分、个人利益，哪怕只是一些个人便利。她攻击前总统特朗普在面对新冠疫情时的无能，甚至将病毒称为“特朗普病毒”，但她自己却打破保持社交距离的规定，就为了做头发。不过这些与她通过玩弄系统而收入囊中的其他收益相比，根本不算什么。Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi has been nicknamed "God of stocks in the U.S. Congress" by many here in China. A series of stock investments at the right time have caused many to suspect insider trading by the Pelosis. 南希·佩洛西的丈夫保罗·佩洛西被许多中国人戏称为“国会山股神”。他总能在适当的时机买入股票，让许多人怀疑佩洛西一家有内幕交易之嫌。In December 2021, Paul Pelosi bought a million-dollar worth of Tesla stocks. A little more than a month later, President Biden signed an executive order directing federal officials to transition government fleets to "clean and zero-emission vehicles." As the nation's highest-legislator and a champion for climate change, how convincing is Pelosi when she says she had no prior knowledge of Biden's plan?
2021年12月，保罗·佩洛西买入了价值百万美元的特斯拉公司股票。仅仅一个多月后，拜登总统就签署了一项行政令，指示联邦官员将政府车队更换为“清洁、零排放车辆”。作为国家最高立法者和气候变化行动倡导者，佩洛西称自己事先对拜登的计划一无所知，这样的话可信吗？In May this year, Paul Pelosi scooped up another million Amazon stocks months before the U.S. Department of Defense announced to scrap a deal with Microsoft on cloud computing. Similar operations were made with Apple, Walt Disney, Alphabet, and other stocks. 今年5月，就在美国国防部宣布取消微软云计算合同的前几个月，保罗·佩洛西又买入了100万股亚马逊股票。类似的操作还涉及苹果、迪士尼、Alphabet以及其他公司的股票。The Pelosis have a net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars, making her one of the richest members of Congress. And the vast majority of their wealth comes from stocks, options, and investments made by her husband, with an incredible average return of stocks and options of 56%! When suspected of insider trading, Pelosi has repeatedly said that she has nothing to do with these transactions. 佩洛西夫妇的净资产高达数亿美元，让她跻身国会最富有成员之列。而他们的财富绝大部分来自于股票、期权、以及她丈夫的投资，其股票和期权投资的平均回报率达到了令人难以置信的56%! 当被人怀疑有内幕交易的时候，佩洛西一再表示，她和这些交易无关。Einar Tangen: There's more than enough smoke to know that there's a fire here. You cannot be that lucky consecutively, especially given the position of your wife, whether he heard it from her or heard it from people around her, it doesn't matter. She is compromised. In these types of things, she should have asked him to refrain from investing in stocks, or it would be politically sensitive to her. That would be the moral value thing to do, but she didn't do it. 艾那·唐根：纸终究包不住火。你不可能一直幸运下去，特别是考虑到你妻子的地位，无论是从她那里听到的，还是从她周围的人那里听到的，这都不重要。在这些事情上她说不清楚。佩洛西应该要求丈夫不要投资股票，否则对她来说 这是政治敏感的事。这样做才是符合道德价值观的事，但她却没有这样做。Liu Xin: In June this year, her husband bought shares of the chip-maker NVIDIA but sold them right before the U.S. passed the so-called Chip-plus bill to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry. According to Nancy Pelosi's Deputy Chief of Staff, "Paul Pelosi decided to sell the shares at a loss rather than allow the misinformation in the press regarding this trade to continue." This self-inflicted loss failed appease the critics, who called this a show. 刘欣：今年6月，佩洛西的丈夫买入了芯片制造商英伟达的股票，但就在美国通过旨在促进半导体产业发展的“芯片+”法案前夕，她的丈夫卖出了这些股票。南希·佩洛西的副幕僚长表示，“保罗·佩洛西决定，宁肯亏本卖出这些股票，也不愿让媒体继续散播有关谣言”。这种看起来自损的行为未能安抚批评者，因为他们认为这是在作秀。Before making her infamous trip to Taiwan, she was asked about whether she was abusing power for financial gains, she again flatly denied before hurrying from the podium. This is obviously not her favorite topic. 就在开始臭名昭著的台湾之行前，她被问及是否获取经济利益滥用了权力，她再次断然否认，随后匆匆离开讲台。这显然不是她热衷的话题。Has your husband ever made a stock purchase or sale based on info received from you? No! Absolutely not, okay, thank you.“你的丈夫有没有利用从你那里得到的消息买卖股票？”一位记者曾这样问过佩洛西。“没有！绝对没有，好了，谢谢你。”Upon her return from Taiwan, U.S. house of Representatives is expected to unveil a bill to ban stock trading for lawmakers. When asked whether she would support a ban on stock trading, she refused. "We're a free-market economy," she said. "They should be able to participate in that." 在她结束台湾之行、返回美国之后，美国众议院预计将公布一项禁止立法者参与股票交易的法案。在有一次被问及是否会支持这类法案时，她表示拒绝。“我们是自由市场经济体，”她说，“议员们应当可以参与其中。”Andrew Ross Sorkin: "This was one of the most disappointing, and maybe to put it even less politely, disgraceful comments in views I have heard espoused on this issue. We have insider trading laws for a reason. This undermines every bit of trust. It goes to the worst expectation of corruption. And it's not an expectation, it's real! " 安德鲁·罗斯·索金：在有关这个问题的观点中，这是我听到的最令人失望，或者用更难听的话，最不光彩的评论之一。我们有禁止内幕交易相关法律，这是有原因的。这种做法会破坏仅存的一丝信任，人们会预见到最坏的腐败情况发生，况且这些不是预期，而是现实！Liu Xin: A recent poll showed that three quarters of Americans say members of Congress should not trade stocks while serving in Congress. For Pelosi who's supposed to represent the people who elected her, to get so rich while serving seems not to be a strange idea. 刘欣：最近的一项民意调查显示，四分之三的美国人表示国会议员任职期间不应买卖股票。对于本应该代表选民利益的佩洛西来说，在为人民服务期间发一笔横财的想法似乎并不过分。In fact, personal gains never seem a taboo for her. A lot of what she has done or said seems just about herself, other than overall interest of the people or the nation. For her, Vanity comes first. 事实上，她似乎从来不忌讳追求私利。她的许多言行似乎只为了自身，而不是出于人民或国家的整体利益。对她来说，虚荣心排第一。In Feb. 2020, Pelosi ripped then President Trump's State of the Union speech into pieces right after he delivered it. Even CNN, the liberal-leaning channel, called this "unprecedented, aggressively rude and unapologetically meant to rile up her base. It was divisive, but effective." And this was not the only time she stole the spotlight by being theatrical. 2020年2月，佩洛西在时任总统特朗普发表国情咨文后当众将讲稿撕成碎片。连自由派媒体美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)都称该行为 “史无前例、挑衅粗鲁，毫不掩饰地带节奏。此举让社会更撕裂而且立竿见影”。她不止一次用戏剧化的表现吸引眼球。Huang Chih-Hsien: And she personally enjoys fame as a political figure and tend to perform to capture the limelight. She would feel uneasy if reporter's cameras were not on her. 黄智贤：她的性格都有那种表演性的性格，那种喜欢捕捉镁光灯的性格。记者camera如果没有对着我，我就会觉得惶惶不可终日。Liu Xin: Another example of her penchant for political vanity is her decades-long bias on China. 刘欣：还有个她贪恋政治虚荣的例子就是她几十年来对中国的偏见。Former CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Mike Chinoy described her as someone who has a "penchant for high-profile gestures designed to poke China's Communist rulers in the eye – regardless of consequences." 前CNN北京分社社长迈克·奇诺伊(Mike Chinoy)形容她是一个总是要“用趾高气昂的姿态、不顾后果去惹怒中国领导人的人。”And her latest trip to Taiwan was just that. Sourabh Gupta: I'll be frank about it. She just wants to poke China in the eye. She is going to lose the speakership position most likely at the end of this year, after the midterm elections. If I understand correctly, she, anyway, even if they do, when she will be stepping aside to have a next generation from the Democratic side. But anyway, the point is, I think the Democrats will not just lose. They will be hammered. And therefore, her chance to ever come as a speaker to Taiwan, she could come as a Congresswoman, as part of a "CODEL," but as speaker will have evaporated. I think that is essentially what she's trying to get at, to poke China in the eye when she can.
苏拉布·古普塔：坦率地说，她就是想激怒中国。她很可能在今年年底，也就是中期选举之后失去众议院议长一职。如果我没理解错的话，她无论如何都要靠边站了，即便民主党拿下中期选举，也会有新人代替她的位置。但说这并不是最重要的，我认为重点在于，民主党不仅会输掉中期选举，而且会惨败。所以，她当然还可以作为议员，作为国会代表团的一员出访台湾，但是以众议院议长的身份出访一旦错过就再无机会了。我认为这基本上就是她想达到的目的——在她还身在其位的时候激怒中国。Liu Xin: Since the beginning of 2022, Pelosi has been contemplating a visit to Taiwan. In April, she had to cancel the trip last minute due to COVID-19. And in September, she'd be busy getting her members re-elected and elected. So, before the end of the year, this was the last window of opportunity to put on this show and go down in history as the most powerful woman who visited Taiwan in defiance of China in the name of so-called democracy. It would also conveniently deviate attention from the scandals troubling her at home. 刘欣：今年年初以来，佩洛西一直在谋划访台事宜。4月，由于她感染新冠，不得不在最后一刻取消计划。9月她又要忙着为民主党成员中期选举连任和当选造势。所以今年年底之前，这是她上演这出戏最后的机会了。她企图打着所谓捍卫“民主”旗号，蔑视中国，以到访过台湾最有权力的女政客的身份载入史册。对在国内饱受丑闻困扰的她而言，这能大大转移外界的注意力。Joanna Lei : By allowing Pelosi to throw her weight into this regional issue, it is like Unites States threw a 500-pound gorilla to the cross-Strait issue and very clearly becoming an intervening factor of what people and leadership across Taiwan-Strait should decide.雷倩：允许佩洛西在这一问题上搅浑水就像美国在台海问题上放出一只重达500磅的大猩猩，试图插手两岸民众和领导人之间的家事。Victor Gao: I would call her the troublemaker in chief in the world because she doesn't care about the fundamental interests of the people of Taiwan. She doesn't care about the prospect and commitment for the reunification of two sides on the Taiwan Strait, because after all we are all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. 高志凯：“我叫她‘世界麻烦制造总监’，因为她根本不关心台湾人民的根本利益，她也并不关心两岸统一的前景和承诺。不管怎样，海峡两岸的人都是中国人。”Einar Tangen: Public relations card that could be used by the United States to try to bring condemnation on to China, because China feels and the U.S. has accepted that Taiwan is part of China, but now they're trying to rewrite history. And Nancy Pelosi in a combination of ego and American Exceptionalism. Selective values are going along with that. 艾那·唐根：美国打公关牌，试图引人谴责中国，中国觉得中美已就“台湾是中国的一部分”达成共识，但现在美国在试图改写历史。她的自大和美国例外主义信仰以及有选择性的道德在这里交织表现出来。Liu Xin: After she sneaked out of the island, the people of Taiwan have spoken. A poll conducted the next day with 13,000 respondents show over three fourths of them have no confidence in her promise to protect so-called democracy in Taiwan. 刘欣：佩洛西离台后，台湾民众做出了他们的判断。次日，一个对13000名受访者进行的民意调查显示，超过四分之三的人对她在台湾维护所谓民主的承诺没有信心。Nancy Pelosi may be exiting from the post of House Speaker very soon. When she looks back, she will have little to claim as her political legacy. On issues which she felt strongly such as guns and abortions rights, little progress has been made under her tenure. She did pull off the Taiwan gimmick, but that will not solve any domestic woes that plague the American people, but rather quite the opposite. 佩洛西可能很快就会退位众议院议长一职。回顾她的任期，几乎没什么可圈可点的政治遗产。在她一贯立场鲜明的议题上，如枪支和堕胎权问题，她在任期内几乎没有建树。她的台湾闹剧成功上演，但这不会解决美国民众面对的任何困境，而且会起到反作用。But Nancy Pelosi doesn't care about the overall interest of the American people and nation. She cares about her own legacy and her own pocket.
佩洛西似乎不在意美国整体的人民利益和国家利益。她在乎的只有她自己的政治遗产和钱包厚度。The French King Louis XV had an expression: " Après moi, le déluge," meaning "After me, the deluge." It's an attitude of indifference towards whatever happens after one's gone. Pelosi truly embodies that spirit. Only her own legacy and wealth matter, all else be damned. 法国国王路易十五有句话，“Après Moi, le deluge”，意思是“我死之后，哪管洪水滔天”。这是一种对自己离开后的一切后果都毫不在意的态度。佩洛西把这种态度演绎得淋漓尽致。她只顾个人的政治遗产和财富，其他的与她何干？