修改六项保证？学者认为中将反制对台军售

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VOA Chinese, Sept 29, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110929-us-taiwan-policy-130796018.html

Quote:

卡内基民主基金会(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)亚洲项目高级研究员史文(Michael Swaine)，星期三在大西洋理事会一场有关美国与台海未来发展的研讨会中表示: "美国的政策最终是要实现美国的利益，六项保证并非以鲜血写下， 它们不是美国法律.

"美国官方最近一次提到'六项保证'，是在9月21号通知国会58.5亿美元对台军售当天。奥巴马政府资深官员在国务院一个针对这次军售案举行的电话背景简报中表示，美国奉行“被我们非正式称呼的六项保证”，强调六项保证其中最重要的一项，就是美国不会在事前与中国正式或非正式讨论军售事宜。他说，美国在通知国会对台军售项目之后，通过中国驻美大使张业遂告知中国政府这个军售决定，是美中之间关于这次对台军售的首次接触。

My comment: Regarding quotation 2, whcih does not name the the senior official "资深官员." Indeed Liberty Times used the same term without naming the official, either. Presumably the senior official had asked to speak on background.  
曹郁芬, 重申對台六保證 美：軍售未與中諮商; 官員指軍售有助台海穩定. Liberty Times, Sept 23, 2011.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/sep/23/today-fo1.htm


------------------------------------------Separately
(1)
(a) 上海地铁官方道歉贴失而重现的经过. VOA Chinese, Sept 29, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110929-Shanghai-Metro-130787813.html
(10号线运营商上海申通地铁集团在官方微博上发出了一条致歉帖)
(b) 轻度追尾，严重抨击. VOA Chinese, Sept 29, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110929-world-press-china-130799753.html
(央视“轻度”成话题)

(2) 全球打击假药 中国假药大行其道. BBC Chinese, Sept 29, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/science/2011/09/110929_china_fake_drugs.shtml

(3) 英国男子承认杀害华裔女子刘佳. BBC Chinese, Sept 29, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/uk/2011/09/110929_ashton_mumder.shtml
(b) Nick Britten, Jia Ashton Murder: the Drifter Who Killed for a Mobile Phone and MP3 Player. Daily Telegraph, Sept 29, 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8796570/Jia-Ashton-murder-the-drifter-who-killed-for-a-mobile-phone-and-MP3-player.html

Note: The report states, "At 6ft 2in and weighing 21st, Simmonds saw Miss Ashton, 25, who was only 4ft 11in and six and a half stone, as an easy target."

Of course I do not know British measurements.

(i) stone (imperial mass)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(imperial_mass)

Quote:

"Although the United Kingdom's 1985 Weights and Measures Act expressly prohibited the use of the stone as a unit of measure for purposes of trade (other than as a supplementary unit), the stone remains widely used within the United Kingdom and in Ireland as a means of expressing human body weight. People in these countries normally describe themselves as weighing, for example, '11 stone 4' (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" in most other countries, or '158 pounds' (the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the United States and Canada).

"When used as the unit of measurement, the plural form of stone is correctly stone (as in, "11 stone"),

Obviously a stone is fourteen (14) pouunds. So six and a half stone is 91 pounds.

(ii) In addition, "weigh 21st" means weigh 21 stone. In the web, a Briton asked, "am i fat if i weigh 21st 13lbs and i'm 6 feet 7 inches tall?"

"[W]eighing 21st" means 294 pounds.


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