怀特tm808怎么样，澳大利亚接受中国疫苗

Cold-shouldered by US, will Canberra learn a lesson and handle international ties like grown-ups?

By Chen Hong

A health worker collects swab samples at a COVID-19 drive through testing site in the Smithfield suburb of Sydney on Thursday. Australia is battling to get on top of the fast-moving Delta strain that has plunged Sydney and Melbourne into hard lockdowns.Photo: AFP

Australia is at present frustratingly thrashing in a ferocious new wave of the Delta variant outbreak. Every day the numbers of new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in its major states reach a disturbingly new high.

Australia, therefore, needs vaccines, and needs them desperately.

Despite the Morrison administration's continuous appeals to Washington for support for extra doses, Australia has never received any vaccines from the US, as was reported by The Australian newspaper recently, and confirmed by the Australian Health Department.

Canberra has always been congratulating itself and basking in the illusory aura of its "100 years of mateship" with Washington. Australia has been volunteering to act as the US' deputy sheriff in the Asia-Pacific. It consistently serves the American interests and strategic regional and global goals.

During the past several years, Australia has been unhesitatingly spearheading the US' campaign to contain, suppress and assault China's development, at the risk of losing its largest trade partner. Australia's two-way trade volume with China in 2020, as a matter of fact, was as much as A$251 billion ($181 billion). As comparison, the two-way trade volume between Australia and the US was A$80.8 billion.

What's more, to many's disbelief and bewilderment, the Australian Defence Force's top brasses have even been making saber-rattling remarks pledging to send off and sacrifice "our [Australia's] warriors" to fight with the PLA in the possible prospect of US military conflicts with China.

However, in spite of Australia's selfless devotion to the "rock solid alliance" between the two countries, the Biden administration has ruthlessly turned down Canberra's requests. This is happening despite Morrison's pitiable begging for some more Pfizer doses. This is really metaphorically like the gruel begging seen in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.

With earlier mismanagements and misjudgments of vaccine acquisitions, Australia's vaccination rollout has been slow-paced and sluggish. According to the federal and state leaders, 70 to 80 percent of the population needs at least one jab in the arm for the country to return to the minimum normalcy. But the distressingly short supply of vaccine shots has been dragging almost every Australian state into one strict lockdown after another.

At the prospect of an imminent parliament election by May 2022, the Australian Liberal-National Party Coalition needs a political booster in the form of shipments of vaccines from the US. This is badly needed for it to remain in its current seat in Canberra. However, Morrison and other China hawks in Australia have to face the fact that today's geopolitical reality allows no wishful thinking. Australia's loyalty to the US in almost every strategic issue has been unremitting and unswerving. But such blind commitment simply cannot bring back any more vaccines during the current existential crisis Down Under.

It is also an embarrassing fact for the Morrison administration that American businesses have been promptly taking up the lion's share in the Chinese market of coal, cotton, wine, beef and other exports left with Australia's injudicious exit since Canberra started to pick fight with Beijing crassly and meaninglessly. The US, in fact, has been pragmatic and self-interested in realistic issues, much to the dismay of the despairingly immature politicians in Canberra.

Washington's willful manipulation of the vaccine handouts should be a wake-up call for one of its blindfolded allies – namely Australia. As Professor Hugh White, defense and strategic studies analyst at the Australian National University, poignantly commented, "the Biden administration, like the Trump administration before it, is demonstrating that it is wholly unsentimental about Australia… We think we're their little mates, but US policy towards Australia has always been determined by how much we help their strategic interests."

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, China has been collaborating with the rest of the world to combat the disease with medical facilities, the PPEs, and vaccines. More than 100 countries have authorized the use of Chinese-produced vaccines. China has been donating COVID-19 vaccines to more than 100 countries and regions, and exporting doses to over 60 countries, regardless of their political affiliations at all.

In this existential humanitarian crisis, vaccines are universally essential and should not be politicized and weaponized. The distribution of the vaccines should not be wantonly selective in accordance with any country's geopolitical strategy.

In view of this, would the Canberra politicians come back to their senses and behave like grown-ups to handle international relations, particularly Australia's relations with China?

The author is president of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies, and professor and director of Australian Studies Centre, East China Normal University.

为疫苗向美乞援遭拒，澳大利亚外交能否成熟？

陈 弘

目前，德尔塔变种病毒正在澳大利亚肆虐。几乎每天，澳大利亚几大州的本地感染确诊病例数都创下新高，疫情告急，令人堪忧。

澳大利亚现在正迫切地需要疫苗。

虽然莫里森政府一再向华盛顿请求支援，希望从**得到更多的疫苗，然而根据《澳大利亚人》报的报道和澳大利亚卫生部的确认，澳大利亚连一剂疫苗也没有从**获得过。

堪培拉当局一向自鸣得意地沉湎在“美澳百年伙伴情谊”的幻觉中。长期以来，澳大利亚自告奋勇地充当**在亚太地区的代理警长，服务于**的利益，服务于**地区和全球的战略目标。

近几年，澳大利亚义无反顾地充当**反华战略急先锋，积极配合乃至挑头为**遏制、打压和攻击中国的和平发展。中国是澳大利亚最大的贸易伙伴，2020年双边贸易额达到了2510亿澳元（约1810亿美元），而澳大利亚同**的双向贸易额则仅仅是808亿澳元。失去中国这个贸易伙伴，是澳大利亚面临的不可承受的巨大风险。

更令人难以置信的是，澳大利亚国防军一些高官近期火药味十足，嚣张扬言，声称一旦中美发生军事冲突，澳大利亚将派兵同解放军作战。

澳大利亚为美澳同盟如此卖力，甘愿做出如此巨大的牺牲，但是对澳大利亚就疫苗的要求，拜登政府却无情地断然拒绝。莫里森乞求辉瑞疫苗遭到拒绝，俨然如同狄更斯《孤星血泪》中的情景，奥利弗·退斯特乞求多要一勺粥，却被断然喝止。

由于澳大利亚先前购买疫苗时判断失策，管理失措，澳大利亚目前的疫苗接种极其缓慢。澳联邦政府和州领导人都表示，要让全国回到最低水平的正常状态，70-80%的人口需要至少接种一剂疫苗，但是目前疫苗供应短缺，致使几乎每个州都一一实施严厉的封城锁地措施。

2022年5月前，澳大利亚将举行议会选举，目前执政的自由党-国家党联盟迫切需要来自**的疫苗支持，为自己注入一剂强心剂，以期在竞选中获胜连任。但是，在当今的国际政治现实中，一厢情愿是没有用的，莫里森和澳大利亚其他的对华鹰派必须面对和接受这个现实。在**的所有战略行动上，澳大利亚可谓是忠心耿耿，无私奉献，但是当国内发生疫情危机的关键时刻，对华盛顿的盲目追随却居然换不回一剂疫苗。

另一件令莫里森政府无比尴尬的事，是**企业正在抢占澳大利亚留出的中国市场份额。由于澳大利亚无端挑衅中国，澳大利亚煤炭、棉花、葡萄酒、牛肉和其他产品退出中国市场，而**厂商则嗅到商机。逐利而来，在实际问题上，**向来很现实，讲实利，堪培拉那些不成熟的政客们再恼恨也没有用。

华盛顿当局在疫苗外援问题上“不讲武德”，这应该给一叶障目的澳大利亚敲响警钟。澳大利亚国立大学国防与战略研究学者休·怀特一针见血地指出：“拜登政府与其前任特朗普政府如出一辙，他们都表达得很清楚，**并不对澳大利亚有什么深厚情义……我们以为我们是**的小伙伴，但**的对澳政策是取决于我们在多大程度上能够有助于他们的战略利益的。”

新冠疫情暴发以来，中国与世界各国通力合作，驰援医疗设备、个人防护用品和疫苗。目前，100多个国家已经批准使用中国生产的疫苗。中国向100多个国家和地区捐赠疫苗，向60多个国家出口疫苗，不附加任何政治条件。

我们所面临的是一场人类生存危机，疫苗是全人类的公共产品，不应当被政治化和武器化，不应当按照某个国家的地缘政治战略选择性地进行施舍。

鉴于此，堪培拉的政客们是否能够认清现实，回归理性，学会像成年人那样处理国际关系，尤其是目前陷入困局的中澳关系？