卑鄙! 日駐英使館被指收買英國智庫渲染'中國威脅論'

Japan has been paying 10,000 pounds per month to a British think tank to hype up "China threat" among British high-level politicians, local media reported.

據英國當地媒體報道，日本以每月10000英鎊的價格僱傭一個英國智庫，讓其在英國高級政治家之間宣傳“中國危脅論”。

A detailed report carried out by The Sunday Times said that the Japanese Embassy in London reached a deal with the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a registered charity, to wage a propaganda campaign against China.

據《星期日泰晤士報》一份詳細的報道稱，日本駐倫敦大使館和一家註冊慈善機構“亨利·傑克遜協會”達成了協議，通過支付報酬令其進行反華宣傳。

It said that the deal was reached in response to growing cooperation between China and Britain.

據悉這一協議的目的是爲了應對中英兩國之間日益增多的合作。

The former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind acknowledged that the HJS, founded in 2005, had approached him to put his name to an article published by the Daily Telegraph last August expressing concerns about China's involvement in Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant.

英國前外交大臣馬爾科姆·裏夫金德日前承認，成立於2005年的亨利·傑克遜協會接近他、讓他署名去年八月在《每日電訊報》發表的一篇文章，該文章表達了關於對中國參與英國欣克利點C核電站一事的擔憂。

The article, titled "How China could switch off Britain's lights in a crisis if we let them build Hinkley C", raised fears that "no one knows what 'blackdoor' technologies might be able to be introduced into the building of a power plant."

這篇文章名爲《如果我們讓中國建設欣克利點C核電站，他們會怎樣在危機中切斷我們的電源》，引起人們對“沒人知道在覈電站建設過程中會使用什麼'後門'技術”的擔憂。

The HJS has not responded to Xinhua's interview request.

亨利·傑克遜協會目前還沒有就新華社的採訪要求作出迴應。