阮宗泽总领事在《中国日报》撰文《“奥库斯”打开潘多拉之盒》

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4月22日，驻布里斯班总领事阮宗泽在《中国日报》撰写评论文章《“奥库斯”打开潘多拉之盒》。全文如下：

On 22nd April, Chinese Consul-General in Brisbane Dr RUAN Zongze wrote an op-ed article AUKUS has opened a Pandora’s Box on China Daily.  The full text is as follows:

“奥库斯”打开潘多拉之盒

这周早些时候，美英防长在五角大楼举行会谈，讨论了乌克兰危机和“奥库斯”（AUKUS）。3月14日，美英澳领导人在美国圣迭戈海军基地大张旗鼓地宣布“奥库斯”庞大的核潜艇计划。此举背后是典型的冷战思维，刺激全球军备竞赛，破坏国际核不扩散体系，损害地区和平稳定，三国却将之归咎于“中国威胁”。简直是奇谈怪论。可谓欲加之罪，何患无辞。

在华丽的面纱之下，“奥库斯”隐藏不住美英澳三国核潜艇合作所开的恶劣先例——核武器国家向无核武器国家转让大量武器级高浓铀，构成严重核扩散风险，违反《不扩散核武器条约》的目的和宗旨，后患无穷。

前总理保罗·基廷（Paul Keating）抨击“奥库斯”协议是澳大利亚工党政府100多年来“最糟糕的国际决定”。

“奥库斯”和美日印澳四方安全对话（QUAD）沆瀣一气，旨在拼凑亚太版北约。北约已经搞乱了欧洲，照此下去，亚太地区半个世纪的安全稳定恐怕也难逃噩运。他们却将“中国威胁”作为由头，渲染战争，敲响战鼓。

“奥库斯”为何偏偏扯上中国？在他们看来，中国发展壮大就是原罪，中国就应当依然是一百多年前那样积贫积弱，他们可以对中国为所欲为。

美国西方政客声称中国强大了就要捣毁现有国际体系，从而建立一个以中国为中心的国际体系。这是恶意强加给中国的伪命题。

美国打着维护“以规则为基础的国际秩序”的幌子，奉行的却是“顺我者昌，逆我者亡”、谁的拳头大谁有理的强权法则，实际上早就严重偏离了以联合国为中心的国际体系。

不仅如此，美国还炮制“民主对抗权威”的叙事，假借“民主峰会”打意识形态牌，拼凑针对中国的价值观同盟，企图遏制中国的发展。

然而，自诩民主“灯塔”的美国，其外交政策却是专制。长期以来，美国西方千方百计通过武力输出民主模式，给国际社会带去的灾难和动荡比比皆是。

中国所为恰恰是在维护以联合国为中心的国际体系，而该体系却屡屡受以美国为首的西方国家的践踏。中国不输出战争。新中国成立70多年来，从未主动挑起一次冲突，从未侵占别国一寸土地，从未发动过一场代理人战争，是全球和平纪录最佳的大国。中国提出全球安全倡议、全球发展倡议和全球文明倡议，推动构建人类命运共同体，积极提供国际公共产品，受到国际社会的普遍欢迎。

近日，中国成功调解伊朗和沙特阿拉伯的和解，缔造和平，就是全球安全倡议的生动实践。以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴将让中国有更大力量维护世界和平。

令人匪夷所思的是，此举被澳大利亚媒体误读为“外交威胁”，因为“中东和平对美国和以色列不利”，这再次证明，在其眼里美国的利益高于国际社会的利益。

澳大利亚有一种与生俱来的安全缺失感。澳大利亚舆论因为种种需要，鼓噪“中国威胁”，其实真相是澳大利亚害怕的正是“美国威胁”，因为它既担心失去美国的保护伞，又慑于美国层出不穷的棍棒。

澳大利亚地处亚太地区，理应珍惜该地区的和平与稳定；但是澳大利亚在思想文化上始终归属于盎格鲁-撒克逊小圈子，与美英更接近。澳大利亚长期囿于身份认同的困境与焦虑是：扮演东西方之间的桥梁还是木马？遗憾的是，“奥库斯”已成为澳大利亚代表美国西方狠狠扎向亚太地区的一根利刺。（阮宗泽）

AUKUS has opened a Pandora's box

By Ruan Zongze

The US, UK defense leaders discussed Ukraine, AUKUS in a Pentagon meeting early this week. On March 14, leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia announced the pathway to cooperation on nuclear submarine at the naval base in San Diego, California, with great fanfare. With Cold War mentality behind it, this move will stimulate an arms race, undermine the international non-proliferation regime, and hurt the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. They always have excuses to find fault with China, ludicrously blaming it to "China threat".

Under the painted veil of AUKUS lies the bad precedent set by the nuclear submarine cooperation among the US, the UK and Australia, in which a nuclear weapon state will transfer weapons-grade highly enriched uranium to a nonnuclear weapon state. This constitutes severe nuclear proliferation risks, runs counter to the purposes and goals of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and will create endless troubles.

Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating has criticized the AUKUS agreement, saying it is the "the worst international decision" by a Labor government in more than a century. The AUKUS colludes with the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (or Quad), aiming to form a NATO-like organization in the Asia-Pacific. NATO has already brought chaos to Europe. If it keeps going like this, the security and stability in the region will be threatened. But the Western powers use the "China threat" theory as a pretext to beat the drums of warfare.

Why does the AUKUS exploit the "China threat" issue? From their point of view, becoming stronger is China's original sin. China should be poor and weak as it was more than a century ago, so they could do whatever they wanted to with the country.

Politicians in the US and other Western countries claim that China will replace the current world order with a China-centered one. That's a fallacy. It is being used only to smear China.

Although it calls it a "rules-based international order", the US pursues a policy of "whoever follows will survive and whoever defies will perish", and plays might-is-right power politics, deviating far from the UN-centered world order.

Moreover, the US propagates the "democracy versus authoritarianism" narrative and plays the ideology card through events such as the "Summit for Democracy", so as to form so-called values-based alliances against China to check China's development.

The US, a self-proclaimed "beacon of democracy", is resorting to an authoritarian diplomatic policy and has been exporting its own democratic model by force for years. This has resulted in countless disasters and unrest across the world.

What China has been doing, in contrast, is trying to safeguard the UN-centered world order, which is being trampled on by the US and some other Western countries. China doesn't export wars. For the 70-plus years since its founding, the People's Republic of China has never started a conflict, occupied one inch of foreign land or triggered a proxy war, and has one of the best peace records among major powers. China has put forward the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, and is helping build a community with a shared future for mankind as well as offering global public goods, which have been widely welcomed by the international community.

Recently, China brokered a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. During his recent visit to Russia, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a joint statement, stressing that the Ukraine crisis be settled through dialogue. These are part of China's Global Security Initiative.

By realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization, China will become more capable of promoting world peace.

Surprisingly, this has been misread by the Australian media as a "diplomatic threat", with some even saying the "Middle East pact is bad for the US and Israel". This once again proves that, in the US-led West's eyes, the interest of the US comes before the international community's.

Australia has an inherent sense of insecurity. The Australian media hype up "China threat" theory out of different needs. In fact, what frightens Australia is "US threat" rather than the "China threat", for it fears both losing protection and receiving endless bludgeons if it doesn't follow the US.

Australia is part of the Asia-Pacific and should cherish peace and stability in the region. But ideologically and culturally, Australia identifies more with the Anglo-Saxon circle, closer to the US and the UK. For long, Australia has been trapped in an identity crisis and it has become a Trojan horse for the region. Regrettably, the AUKUS has made Australia a thorn in the flesh of Asia-Pacific nations, as it represents the US-led West.

The author is consul-general of the People's Republic of China in Brisbane, Australia.

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