中国推行个人详细信息的电子身份证记录并广布监控摄像头
At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras警方监控摄像头
are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon
be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed
company to recognize automatically the faces
of police suspects and detect unusual activity. Starting this month in a
port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4
million people, residency cards居住卡 fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens.
Shenzhen,
a computer manufacturing center next to Hong Kong, is the first Chinese
city to introduce the new residency cards. It is also taking the lead in China in the large-scale use of law enforcement surveillance cameras — a tactic that would have drawn international criticism in the years after the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989. But rising fears of terrorism have lessened public hostility to surveillance cameras in the West. This has been particularly
true in Britain, where the police already install the cameras widely on
lamp poles and in subway stations and are developing face recognition
software as well.
New York police announced last month that they would install more than 100 security cameras to monitor license plates
in Lower Manhattan by the end of the year. Police officials also said
they hoped to obtain financing to establish links to 3,000 public and
private cameras in the area by the end of next year; no decision has
been made on whether face recognition technology has become reliable
enough to use without the risk of false arrests.
The role of
American companies in helping Chinese security forces has periodically
been controversial in the United States. Executives from Yahoo, Google,
Microsoft and Cisco Systems testified in February 2006 at a
Congressional hearing called to review whether they had deliberately
designed their systems to help the Chinese state muzzle(封口，钳制言论) dissidents on the Internet; they denied having done so.
中国在非洲大陆到处抢资源
In mineral-rich countries that had been all but几乎差不多 abandoned by foreign investors because of unrest不安动荡的局面 and corruption, Chinese companies are reviving output of cobalt and bauxite. China has even become the new mover and shaker（One who wields power（wield power行使权力；wield control [influence]施加控制[影响]；wield the sceptre掌握大权; 行使权力）and influence in a sphere of activity（活动范围，重力范围）: "the importance of hanging out with the movers and shakers of the art world" Richard Colvin. 或者解释为 people who have a lot of power and influence. This play has attracted the attention of the Broadway movers and shakers）
in agricultural countries like Ivory Coast, once the crown jewel in
France's postcolonial African empire, where Chinese companies are
building a new capital, in Yamoussoukro, paid for by Chinese loans.
That blush of interest
in Africa quickly faded, though, as did several of the new democracies,
and Africans and Westerners have regarded each other warily ever since.
Westerners complain about chronic corruption and ineffective government, while Africans lament broken promises on aid and a hostile international economic system.
The Chinese have stepped into this picture(引人注意, 处于显要地位, 成为其中一部分,比喻意为横插一杠子进来了), coming to struggling countries like Chad with deep pockets（财富资产，有财富的人或其他事物 如Japanese investors . . . have all but几乎 pulled out of the market—and there's no deep pocket outside Japan to take their place日本投资者…几乎退出了那个市场——除了日本，此外没有别的巨富投资商可以取代他们）, fewer demands on how African governments should behave and an avowed faith in everyone's ability to prosper.
With such intensive efforts
across the continent, China's trade with Africa topped $55 billion in
2006, up from less than $10 million in the 1980s. To achieve this
growth, it has bypassed绕过 multinational institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
and flouted轻视嘲笑 many of their lending criteria, including minimum
standards of transparency, open bidding for contracts, environmental
impact studies and assessments of overall debt and fiscal policies.
In
fact, the very idea of the World Bank project is anathema to China's
deeply held noninterference policy, which has for decades governed
China's foreign policy and development. Underlying both is a kind of golden rule金色规则 — China considers other countries meddling in干涉管闲事 its affairs unacceptable, and it assumes its friends feel the same way. “The Chinese government,” he said, “won't enforce强加于 something that Chad thinks interferes with their internal affairs.”To China's new African allies, this notion is a breath of fresh air. After years of hewing to遵守，坚持 the latest fads in international development doled out（少量发放的） by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Western donors and the United Nations, African governments have grown weary of the strings attached to foreign aid.
At last a little boy popped out, his head slightly misshapen畸形, like a peanut shell.
“Ah, he's a handsome boy,” she said, holding him aloft高高举起, feet first, waiting for his first bellowing cries. There was only time to snip剪断 his umbilical cord脐带, weigh him — five and a half pounds, not too bad for this part of the world — and swaddle襁褓 him in rags before the next mother, also 18, was ready to hop on the table still slick with afterbirth slime.
