在中亚，中国对俄罗斯后院的侵袭 [美国媒体]

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Slowly but surely, a four-lane highway is beginning to take shape on the sparsely populated Central Asian steppe. Soviet-era cars, trucks and aging long-distance buses weave past modern yellow bulldozers, cranes and towering construction drills, laboring under Chinese supervision to build a road that could one day stretch from eastern Asia to Western Europe.

虽缓慢但无可置疑， 一条四车道的高速公路开始改变了人烟稀少的中亚大草原。前苏联时代的汽车，卡车和年代久远的长途大巴如浪潮般经过黄色的现代推土机，起重机和高耸的工程钻机。在中国的监管下，他们在建一条将从东亚通往西欧的公路。

This small stretch of blacktop, running past potato fields, bare dun-colored rolling hills and fields of grazing cattle, is a symbol of China’s march westward, an advance into Central Asia that is steadily wresting the region from Russia’s embrace.

这一段小柏油路蜿蜒经过马铃薯地、连绵起伏的光秃秃的淡褐色山丘和放牧牲畜的区域。这是中国向西进入中亚，持续地袭击俄罗斯领土的进一步举动。

Here the oil and gas pipelines, as well as the main roads and the railway lines, always pointed north to the heart of the old Soviet Union. Today, those links are beginning to point toward China.

这是石油和天然气管道，也是主道和铁路干道，一直以来直入前苏联的腹地，现在这些通道开始延伸向中国。

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Traffic is seen on a section of the road, which will link China and Europe, near Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Sept. 16. (Adam Dean/For The Washington-Post)

上图是在哈萨克奇姆肯特附近连接欧洲和中国公路上的交通场景（9月16号，亚当-迪安，华盛顿邮报）

“This used to be Russia’s back yard,” said Raffaello Pantucci, director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London, “but it is increasingly coming into China’s thrall.”

“这本来是俄罗斯的后院，”伦敦皇家联合服务研究所国际安全研究主任拉菲罗·庞图奇说，“但现在这个地区越来越受到中国的支配。”

It is a shift that has shaken up the Russian leadership, which is watching China’s advance across the steppe with apprehension. Moscow and Beijing may speak the language of partnership these days, but Central Asia has emerged as a source of wariness and mistrust.

俄罗斯满怀忧虑的看着中国在中亚大草原地位的增强，这种变化已经动摇了她的领导地位。莫斯科和北京也许口说着他们之间的友谊，但实际中亚却使双发相互警惕和不信任。

For China, the region offers rich natural resources, but Beijing’s grander commercial plans — to export its industrial overcapacity and find new markets for its goods — will struggle to find wings in these poor and sparsely populated lands.

对中国来说，中亚虽然能提供丰富额自然能源，但北京更大的商业计划却需要找到消化其过剩工业产能、出售商品的新市场，而在贫穷且人口稀少的中亚地区却又很难找到机会。










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donnolo
2:27 PM GMT+0800
This article is about a highway, but the most cost-effective way to ship goods in quantity is by rail. Why is there nothing here about a rail link between China and Europe?
 
这是篇关于高速公路的文章，但是运输大批货物最划算的的方法是用铁路。为什么这里没有关于连接中国和欧洲的铁路（的文章）？
 
sthomas1957
1:35 PM GMT+0800
It's not all strategic; some of it's just plain practical. A few hundred miles to the north and you'd have a highway spanning eleven time zones that was frozen under ice and snow for six months of the year. Like driving across Wyoming in the winter multiplying the distance by twenty times! No one wants to drive on ice and snow for those vast distances, and no one wants to clean the roads and keep them clear for hundreds of miles between villages. Although, as a trucker, I do have to say that I'm encouraged anytime we see a move away from ships and planes and back to the old-fashioned way of moving freight by way of good old diesel engines. Just don't have a tire blowout somewhere out there or you might have to wait a day or two for another passing vehicle to come by. The area still relies on trains as its primary transportation mover.

（这些公路建设）并不都是出于战略目的，有一部分仅仅是出于实际考虑。往北几百英里，你会看到一段跨域11个时区，一年之内半年的时间都是被冰雪冻住的高速公路。（这段路的长度）就好像你在冬季开车跨越Wyoming（美国的一个州）整个州的长度20次！没有谁会想在那么长一段被冰雪冻住的路上开车，也不会有谁会想去这些村落与村落之间相隔成百上千英里的公路打扫和保持道路干净。不过呢，作为一个老司机我还是想说，每当我们（这些货车司机）听到任何重新将焦点放回用老式柴油发动机（意思指大货车）这些传统运输方式运货而不是用轮船或飞机的消息，我都会感到很欣慰。只是别在那里（一年之内半年冰冻的公路）爆胎！要不然你也许只能等上一两天来向过路的车辆求助了。这片区域（现在）仍然依靠铁路作为运输货物的主要方式。

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sthomas1957
1:41 PM GMT+0800
And you better be carrying some chains with you when you start climbing some of those mountains and it starts snowing...
 
 最好带上铁链吧。要是当你（开车）开始攀爬那里的一些山区的时候，天开始下雪的话...（不带铁链轮胎会滑）

lohdennis
1:31 PM GMT+0800 [Edited]
Another cynical and rather pathetic attempt at bad-mouthing China. Why does it have to be zero-sum game between China and Russia? There is tremendous gain for both vis-a-vis balancing with respect to the US. Quoting a single-authored eight year old paper regarding migrant workers to bolster a major point, it's rather a desperate attempt to me. Time will tell. The progress of integration may be bumpy but the general direction is obvious and positive. What's wrong with better infrastructure and more trade? Far better than exporting wars and conflict as the US does most of the time.

哎又一篇冷嘲热讽乏味至极企图抹黑中国的文章。中国和俄罗斯之间就必须是零和游戏？和美国之间相对平衡的互相尊重也对双方大有裨益。引用一句话：撰写一篇花去我8年时间来调查研究的关于外出务工人员他们自己拥护的主要观点的论文，对我来说是一个令人极度绝望的尝试（意思指平民的观点千奇百怪而且反复无穷）。放心，时间会告诉我们答案的，这个一体化的进程或许会有些困难但大方向是明确的的而且也是对的。更好的基础设施和更多的贸易到底有什么不好的？这总比大部分时间都在输出战争和冲突的美国要好的多太多了！（哎，这家伙对政治和经济真TM清醒）

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benjaminhargy
1:47 PM GMT+0800
I've been to these central Asian countries, and let me tell you, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical. Central Asia is bare, windswept and empty of people, except for a few cities. It certainly will never be a significant export market for China's goods. There are only 2 possible uses for Central Asia as far as China is concerned: Natural resources, and possibly as a thoroughfare for a road linking Europe and China. There are already other ways of getting goods between China and Europe... if China wants to go ahead and spend billions of dollars on a redundant highway through no-mans-land, I guess good luck to them.

我去过这些中亚国家，让我来告诉你这些所谓充分的理由是令人怀疑的，中亚除了少数的一些城市外都是荒芜的暴露在风沙中的无人地区。可以确定的是它对中国商品的出口毫无意义。这是中国对中亚挂念的两个原因：自然资源和作为一条连接欧洲和中国的通道。中国和欧洲之间早就有了其他方法获得对方的 商品。。。如果中国想要进一步并且花费数十亿美元在一个多余的通过无人区的公路，我祝他们好运。
 
DaveoftheCoonties
1:30 PM GMT+0800
What of rail transport of Chinese goods to Europe via Kazakhstan and Russia? My guess is that it's been greatly reduced, if not cut off entirely, by sanctions imposed on Russia.

中国商品通过铁路运输经由哈萨克斯坦和俄罗斯而进入欧洲的情况怎样了？我猜由于对俄罗斯制裁的原因，即使没有完全切断，其运输量也大大减少了。

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wts11
1:28 PM GMT+0800
The articles or reporters at WaPo always trying to pay political games when it comes to business relationship between China and other nations. This article serves nothing but the objective of creating doubts and schism between Russia and China. And it is doing this at the bidding of the gov in Washington. There was quite a bit of news about US gov using newspaper publications to do propaganda during the cold war. I have no doubt, they are doing it now. I just hope this reporter is not part of that grand scheme against China.

当中国和其他国家涉及商业事务的时候， 华盛顿邮报的文章或记者总是试图玩政治诡计。本文的目的只是为了在俄中之间制造怀疑和分裂。它这么做只是因为华盛顿政府的命令。有大量关于美国政府在冷战期间利用新闻出版物来宣传的新闻。我毫不怀疑，他们现在仍然这样做。我只希望这个记者不是对付中国的大阴毛的一部分。
 
Cy Wong
12:16 PM GMT+0800
I have yet to come across any articles by western media which did not try to cast aspersion on activities by the China government. From the metro in Ethiopia to the rail lines in central Africa. 
The question turn up and remain unanswered is that the western power and USA had years on hands before China ventured into Africa and what good had they done for Africa?
What China had done in Africa is positive for the development of Africa whatever maybe their intentions and if USA and the western powers feared losing influence they can join in - competition should not hurt - in fact that the backbone of capitalism - but then USA had always been practising imperialism- go in buddy with the head of the country ( by a lot of means ) and try to exercise maximun influence.

我还没有在西方媒体上看到过任何文章不是试图中伤中国政府的。从埃塞俄比亚的地铁（项目）到中非的铁路线。
出现而没有被解答的问题是西方国家和美国在中国投资非洲之前存在多年，他们给非洲带来了多少好处呢。不管中国有什么意图，他们在非洲所做的对非洲的发展是积极正面的，如果美国和西方国家担心失去影响力，他们可以参加 - 竞争而不是中伤，事实上作为资本主义的中坚力量—美国却一直在推行帝国主义，这个国家的领导人（通过大量的手段）试图发挥最大的影响力。

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GuruDev108
2:12 PM GMT+0800
Its also not likely you'll be coming across any positive articles in the future, despite the good works in Africa and elsewhere....China is just to intimidating for the white man, European or American, as the Chinese approach to the rest of the world only shows up the centuries of racism and exploitation of the West. The Chinese have always represented THE existential threat to Western hegemony, fear of "the yellow peril" really is a thing.

以后你或许也不会再看到什么积极的文章，尽管在非洲或其他地方还有些好事......中国在一步步威胁无论欧洲还是美国的白人，中国到达世界的其他地方只会揭示数世纪以来白人的种族主义和剥削。对于白人霸权主义，中国人总是存在的威胁，对“黄祸”的恐惧一直都在。