台湾担心特朗普打台湾牌
Cheers in Taiwan over last week’s phone call between President Tsai Ing-wen and Donald Trump have faded into worries that the US president-elect may be using the island’s 23m people as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Beijing.
台湾人士对于上周蔡英文(Tsai Ing-wen)总统和唐纳德.特朗普(Donald Trump)之间通电话的欢呼，已渐渐变成这样一种担心，即美国当选总统可能在与北京方面的谈判中，把2300万台湾人民当作一个讨价还价的筹码。
Mr Trump’s statement — I don’t know why we have to be bound by the One China policy unless we make a deal with China on other things — played into fears on the island that Ms Tsai’s apparent victory in winning a show of support for Taiwan could backfire if it resulted in the island losing its de facto independence.
特朗普的声明（我不明白我们为什么要受‘一中政策’的束缚，除非我们跟中国在其它事情上达成交易）助燃了岛内人士的担心：蔡英文赢得特朗普支持表态的表面胜利，到头来可能得不偿失——如果它导致台湾失去其事实上的独立。
As Beijing warned any revision of the policy by Mr Trump would torpedo China-US co-operation, Taipei tried to downplay the comments, with the president’s office refusing to make a statement.
在北京方面警告特朗普任何修改政策的行为都会损害中美合作之际，台北方面试图淡化他的言论，总统府拒绝发表声明。
But Huang Guo-chang, a newly elected lawmaker from Taiwan’s minority New Power Party who has met twice with Trump aide Stephen Yates, said: Trump is a pragmatist.
但是，台湾少数党時代力量(New Power Party)新当选的立法委员、曾与特朗普助理斯蒂芬.耶茨(Stephen Yates)两次会面的黄国昌(Huang Guo-chang)说：特朗普是一个务实者。
And I want him to know that the US can truly benefit if they treat us as an ally instead of a bargaining chip.
我希望他知道，如果美国把我们当成盟友，而不是讨价还价的筹码，美国真的会受益。
Mr Yates helped organise last week’s call.
耶茨帮助安排了最近的通话。
If Mr Trump treated Taiwan as a tool to reach other policy goals, Mr Huang said, other countries will start to question the rightfulness of other actions the US has taken.
黄国昌表示，如果特朗普把台湾当作实现其它政策目标的工具，其它国家将开始质疑美国采取的其它行动的正义性。
Taiwanese student activists last week warned in a Washington Post op-ed that Americans — liberal, conservative and otherwise — would do well to stop using Taiwan as a tool to score political points at home or against China, and instead examine their commitments to human rights, freedom and democracy.
台湾学生活动人士上周在《华盛顿邮报》(Washington Post)撰文警告称，美国人——无论他们是自由派、保守派还是持其它什么立场——最好停止在国内或针对中国的时候把台湾当作一件政治得分工具，而应该检讨他们对人权、自由和民主的承诺。
The region is increasingly jumpy.
亚太地区的局势越来越紧张。
Taiwan’s defence ministry this weekend denied reports by a Hong Kong newspaper that its warplanes had locked on to Chinese jets circling the island.
台湾国防部周末否认了一家香港报纸的报道，报道称，台湾战机曾经锁定绕岛飞行的中国大陆空军飞机。
Beijing said its aircraft flew over international waters to conduct exercises in the western Pacific.
北京方面称，它的战机在国际水域上空飞行，目的是在西太平洋进行演习。
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence in Tokyo denied Beijing’s claims that Japanese warplanes on Saturday flew dangerously close
与此同时，东京的日本防卫省否认了北京方面的说法，即日本战机上周六对中方军机实施近距离干扰并发射干扰弹，危害中方军机和人员安全。
or fired decoy flares as Chinese jets passed between Okinawa and the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu Islands.
当时中国军机正在通过冲绳本岛和有争议的尖阁诸岛(Senkaku)——中国称钓鱼岛及其附属岛屿——之间的空域。
This aerial sabre-rattling, followed by Mr Trump’s broadside against nearly four decades of US policy in Asia, led Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) to urge stability.
这一空中剑拔弩张的行为，加上特朗普紧接着对美国实行了近40年的亚洲政策表示蔑视，促使台湾反对党国民党(KMT)敦促稳定。
The party promoted closer ties with Beijing while governing the island before January’s general election.
该党在今年1月大选之前执政期间曾经推动两岸发展更紧密关系。
The KMT hopes US-China-Taiwan relationship continues the ‘no surprise’ policy implemented in the past eight years of KMT government, said Eric Huang, the party’s director of international affairs.
国民党希望美中台关系延续过去八年国民党政府实行的‘无意外’政策，国民党国际组组长黄裕钧(Eric Huang)说。
Many of Ms Tsai’s supporters still believe raising the stakes is the only route for survival as a nation.
蔡英文的许多支持者仍然认为，加大赌注是台湾得以生存的唯一道路。
Taipei voter You Su-ling, 50, said she felt happy but fearful following the phone call.
50岁的台北选民游素玲（音，You Su-ling）表示，她对特朗普和蔡英文通电话感到喜悦，但是害怕。
Taiwanese had learnt to shrug off threats of invasion, she said, but worried about the impact of political tensions on Taiwanese businesses investing in the mainland.
她说，台湾人已经学会了不理会入侵的威胁，但担心政治紧张会影响台商投资大陆。
Walking closer to the US means we are farther away from China.
走近美国意味着我们离中国更远。
