Day of Infamy
Day of Infamy
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耻辱日
DOI：
10.1080/00927678.1978.10553936
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1978
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通讯作者：
Frank N. Trager
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作者：
Frank N. Trager
正如参议员戈德华特正确地所说，居民吉米·卡特承认共产主义中国并通知废除我们与中华民国的防御条约的行为是一种“懦弱的行为”。套用富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统在另一个悲惨时刻的评论来说，这也是“耻辱日的行为”。在执行美国外交政策时，卡特先生显然不理解“荣誉”、“道德”和“忠诚”等概念的意义和重要性。他也不认识到，美国在海外的承诺的可信度已经受到严重侵蚀，即使没有被他目前的政策模式彻底摧毁，也会被进一步削弱。看起来卡特打这张“中国牌”几乎是出于愤怒，而不是政治家才能：他的愤怒是他的“到期日”1978年12月17日即将到来，而他承诺的与苏联的战略武器限制条约尚未完成，也没有预期在12月签署埃及-以色列和平条约。令人沮丧的几周和几个月的谈判。如果总统只检查自己的手牌，他还有其他中国牌可以打。没有理由“照原样”接受尼克松-基辛格上海公报，也没有理由接受邓小平不断重申北京的三项要求（承认北京、不承认台北、废除防卫条约）
RESIDENT JIMMY CARTER's action in recognizing Communist China and giving notice of the abrogation of our defense treaty with the Republic of China is, as Senator Goldwater so rightfully called it, a" cowardly act." It was also an" act in a Day of Infamy," to paraphrase President Franklin D. Roosevelt's comment on another tragic occasion. In his conduct of US foreign policy, Mr. Carter clearly does not understand the meaning-and importance-of such concepts as" honor,"" morality," and" loyalty." Nor does he appreciate that the credibility of US commitments abroad, already seriously eroded, will be further weakened if not totally destroyed by his present pattern of policy.It almost looks as if Carter played this" China card" out of pique, not statesmanship: pique that his" due date," December 17, 1978, would come and go without his promised strategic arms limitation treaty with the USSR having yet been completed, and without the expected December signing of an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty after so many frustrating weeks and months of negotiations. The President had other China cards to play if he had only examined his hand. There was no reason to accept the Nixon-Kissinger Shanghai Communique" as is," or to accept Teng Hsiao-p'ing's constant reiteration of Peking's three demands (recognition of Peking and derecognition of Taipei, abrogation of the defense treaty