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រៀនអង់គ្លេស តាមរយ:សារព័ត៌មាន

Chinese Media Is Subdued in the Face of North Korea-U.S. Standoff

ដកស្រង់ចេញពីសារព័ត៌មានអាមេរិក (The New York Times) ចេញផ្សាយនៅថ្ងៃទី២៣ ខែមេសា ឆ្នាំ២០១៧។

BEIJING — Commentators around the world are warning of a potential crisis on the Korean Peninsula. But in China, where the state controls much of the news media, the headlines have been subdued.

Over the past two weeks, as North Korea has tested missiles and the United States has threatened to send warships to the region, there was just one fleeting front page reference to the tensions in People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.

Experts say Beijing’s relative silence may be an attempt to placate both Kim Jong-un of North Korea and President Trump, as well as to prevent the Chinese public from panicking.

Here is a look at the themes dominating coverage of North Korea in the Chinese media, and what they reveal about Beijing’s attitude toward Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump.

China, as one of North Korea’s few remaining allies and its primary source of food and oil, has long been criticized for not doing more to rein in its volatile neighbor.

So the news media there seemed to rejoice when, following a recent meeting in Florida with President Xi Jinping, Mr. Trump told Fox News that “China’s trying to help us.”

A clip of the interទស្សនា went viral in China, where headline writers liberally reinterpreted Mr. Trump’s comments. State-controlled news sites put words in his mouth. “China treats us so well,” one outlet quoted Mr. Trump as saying.

In the interទស្សនា, Mr. Trump said of Mr. Xi: “What am I going to do, start a trade war with China in the middle of him working on a bigger problem, frankly, with North Korea?” But the Chinese media summed up that sentiment as: “And now you’re asking me to stab China in the back? Don’t you have a conscience?”

That remark also inspired memes like the one above, published by Sina Finance, a news portal. The image in the meme, already popular in China, is a visibly perturbed yellow bird, apparently representing Mr. Trump. The caption below it reads: “Don’t you have a conscience?”

Vocabulary (វាក្យសព្ទ)

Commentatorˈkɒm.ən.teɪ.tər/(N)reporter for radio or TV.( អ្នកនិយាយព័ត៌មាន )

Peninsula /pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə/ (N) a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake.(ឧបទ្វីប)

Party ˈpɑː.ti/(N)an organization of people with particular political beliefs that competes in elections to try to win positions in local or national government.(គណបក្ស)

Attempt /əˈtempt/ (N) the act of trying to do something, especially something difficult.(មានបំណង)

Attitude /ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/ (N)feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused by this.(ឥរិយាបទ)

interទស្សនា /ˈɪn.tə.vjuː/  (N) meeting in which someone asks you questions to see if you are suitable for a job or course.(កិច្ចសំភាសន៍)

Trade /treɪd/  (N) the activity of buying and selling, or exchanginggoods and/or services between people or countries.(ពាណិជ្ជកម្ម)

Conscience /ˈkɒn.ʃəns/  (N) the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you feel responsible for.(មនសិកា)

 

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