Now, people of good faith can debate why free nations allowed these bad things to happen for all these years. Perhaps we were naive about China’s virulent strain of communism, or triumphalist after our victory in the Cold War, or cravenly capitalist, or hoodwinked by Beijing’s talk of a “peaceful rise.”
诚信者可以辩论为什么这么多年来自由国家会允许这些坏事发生。也许我们当初对中国的共产主义毒株过于天真，或者冷战之后，我们相信自己必胜，或者我们是贪婪的资本家，或者被北京的“和平崛起”言论所蒙蔽。

Whatever the reason – whatever the reason, today China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else.
无论什么原因，中国今天在国内越来越威权，而且越来越咄咄逼人地敌视世界其它地方的自由。

And President Trump has said: enough.
川普总统已经说了：够了。

I don’t think many people on either side of the aisle dispute the facts that I have laid out today. But even now, some are insisting that we preserve the model of dialogue for dialogue’s sake.
我不认为两党中有很多人对我今天所举出的事实提出质疑。但是即使是现在，有些人还在坚持说，我们必须保留那种为了对话而对话的模式。

Now, to be clear, we’ll keep on talking. But the conversations are different these days. I traveled to Honolulu now just a few weeks back to meet with Yang Jiechi.
现在，要明确说明的是，我们会坚持对话。但是如今的交谈不一样了。几个星期前，我去檀香山见了杨洁篪。

It was the same old story – plenty of words, but literally no offer to change any of the behaviors.
还是老一套，话说了很多，但真的是没有提出要改变任何行为。

Yang’s promises, like so many the CCP made before him, were empty. His expectations, I surmise, were that I’d cave to their demands, because frankly this is what too many prior administrations have done. I didn’t, and President Trump will not either.
杨的承诺，跟中共在他之前做出的很多承诺一样，是空洞的。我猜测，他的预期是，我会屈从于他们的要求，因为坦率地说，太多以往的行政当局都这样做了。我没有。川普总统也不会。

As Ambassador O’Brien explained so well, we have to keep in mind that the CCP regime is a Marxist-Leninist regime. General Secretary Xi Jinping is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology.
奥布莱恩大使阐述得很好，我们必须记住，中共政权是马克思-列宁主义政权。习近平总书记是一个破产的极权主义意识形态的真正信仰者。

It’s this ideology, it’s this ideology that informs his decades-long desire for global hegemony of Chinese communism. America can no longer ignore the fundamental political and ideological differences between our countries, just as the CCP has never ignored them.
他的意识形态决定了他数十年来对中国共产主义全球霸权的渴望。美国不能再忽视我们两国之间政治和意识形态的根本不同了，就像中共从来也没有忽视它们一样。

My experience in the House Intelligence Committee, and then as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and my now two-plus years as America’s Secretary of State have led me to this central understanding:
我在众议院情报委员会任职、随后担任中央情报局局长以及出任国务卿两年多来的经历让我有了这样的核心理解：

That the only way – the only way to truly change communist China is to act not on the basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave. And you can see American policy responding to this conclusion. President Reagan said that he dealt with the Soviet Union on the basis of “trust but verify.” When it comes to the CCP, I say we must distrust and verify. (Applause.)
真正改变共产中国的唯一方式就是以中国领导人如何表现而不是说什么为基础来采取行动。你可以看到美国的政策对这个结论做出回应。里根总统说，他本着“信任但要核实”跟苏联打交道。对中共，我的说法是：“我们必须不信任，而且要核实。”

We, the freedom-loving nations of the world, must induce China to change, just as President Nixon wanted. We must induce China to change in more creative and assertive ways, because Beijing’s actions threaten our people and our prosperity.
我们这些世界上热爱自由的国家，必须引导中国做出改变，就像尼克松总统所要的那样。我们必须以更具创造性而且更为强势的方式引导中国做出改变，因为北京的所作所为威胁着我们的人民与我们的繁荣。

We must start by changing how our people and our partners perceive the Chinese Communist Party. We have to tell the truth. We can’t treat this incarnation of China as a normal country, just like any other.
我们必须从改变我国人民与合作伙伴对中国共产党的看法开始。我们必须说实话。我们不能像对待其它国家一样，把这个中国的化身当作一个正常的国家。

彭沛奥 演讲 中文翻译
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