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原文地址：Biden Hosts a Final ‘Quad Summit’ at His Delaware Home
新闻日期：2024-09-21
拜登将在德拉瓦州家中举办最后一次“四方峰会”
本周六，美国总统拜登将在他位于威尔明顿的家中接待澳大利亚、印度和日本的领导人，这是他第四次主持的“四方峰会”，旨在巩固美国与印太地区国家之间的联盟，并抗衡中国在该地区的日益增长的影响力。
峰会上，拜登将扩展“癌症新星计划”和“Quad Fellowship”，后者是一项旨在增进下一代科学家和技术专家合作的奖学金项目。四国领导人将签署海事协议并宣布联合海岸警备行动。
峰会不会特别讨论中国政策，但白宫国家安全顾问 Jake Sullivan 表示，在与印度总理莫迪会面时，他们将讨论对中国在该地区行为的看法和前景，并努力达成双方都可接受的合作方式。
拜登曾多次说过，“所有政治都是私人事”，他首次邀请领导人在家中开会也反映了这一点。由于距离总统任期结束只剩下几个月时间，这次峰会带有些许个人色彩。
周五晚上，当拜登与澳大利亚总理阿尔巴内塞单独会面时，他在家中为对方进行了一番参观，并让在场的人放松，脱下外套。Sullivan 在周六对记者说，这种氛围让人觉得像在家里喝咖啡一样。
周六，拜登将分别与日本首相岸田文雄和印度总理莫迪进行一对一会谈。下午，四国领导人将在他曾经就读的 Archmere 学院举行正式会议，并在傍晚时分在那里共进私人晚餐。
原文摘要：
President Biden is hosting the leaders of Australia, India and Japan at his home in Wilmington, Del., this weekend, seeking to use his fourth and final “Quad summit” to cement the alliance between the United States and Indo-Pacific nations and to counter China’s rising influence in the region.
Mr. Biden will use the summit to expand both his “cancer moonshot” program and the Quad Fellowship, a scholarship program designed to build ties among the next generation of scientists and technologists. The four leaders will sign a maritime agreement and announce a joint Coast Guard mission.
There will be no specific policies aimed at China, according to Jake Sullivan, Mr. Biden’s national security adviser. But when Mr. Biden meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Mr. Sullivan said, they will discuss how they see China’s actions in the region and where China is headed, and will work to try to coordinate approaches “to the extent that makes sense for both countries.”
Mr. Biden has often said that “all politics is personal,” and the decision to open his home in Wilmington — the first time he has invited foreign leaders there — reflected his conviction that deep relationships are the best way to forge constructive alliances. With just a few months left in the president’s term, this year’s summit will have a personal touch.
On Friday night, when the president had a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, he gave Mr. Albanese a tour of his home and told those in attendance to get comfortable and take off their jackets.
“The vibe of it was sort of two guys, one at the other guy’s home, talking in broad strokes about where they see the state of the world, you know, swapping some stories from their respective political careers,” Mr. Sullivan told reporters on Saturday. It felt, he said, as if “you had someone come over for a cup of coffee.”
Mr. Biden will have one-on-one meetings with the other two leaders — Mr. Modi and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan — at his home on Saturday. All four leaders will meet for a more formal session in the afternoon at Archmere Academy, where the president went to high school, and will have an “intimate” dinner there in the evening, a White House spokeswoman said.
Although the Quad alliance has been in existence for more than a decade, Mr. Biden was the first president to convene a meeting among the leaders of the nations as a foursome. It reflects his belief that, in addition to bilateral meetings and large gatherings like the Group of 20, there is value in what Mr. Sullivan called a “latticework approach with multiple institutions, overlapping partnerships, different configurations.”
The president’s first Quad summit, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2021, was virtual. Mr. Biden used the meeting to announce a partnership with Japan, India and Australia to finance a dramatic expansion of vaccine manufacturing capacity in India, which would in turn help address an acute shortage of Covid vaccines in Southeast Asia.
This year’s summit will also address health issues. Later on Saturday, the leaders will unveil a new collaboration — the Quad Cancer Moonshot Initiative — aimed at reducing cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific region. Some countries in the area, particularly poor and remote island nations, have especially high rates of the disease.
The initiative is being spearheaded by Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Australia, a country that has already made great strides in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer. The expanded moonshot program will focus on expanding cervical cancer screening; increasing vaccinations against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection that is the primary cause of cervical cancer; and treating patients.
It will be supported by Gavi, an international organization that works to expand access to vaccines. In June, Jill Biden, the first lady, announced a five-year commitment of $1.58 billion to Gavi.
