主题：【半原创】BBC Have Your Say提出了一个问题： -- 柳叶刀

中国：同盟者 或者 威胁?　China: Ally or threat?

一个加拿大的读者写了一个简短但清醒的回复：

“同盟者或者威胁”是一个错误的两分法。

中国是一个竞争对手，她可以是一个友好的竞争对手或者不友好的竞争对手。但是，她不会为了保护我们的利益而牺牲自己，她也不会为了激怒我们而损害自己。

他们只是一个同我们竞争的邻居，就象这世界上许多其他的国家一样。

Ally or Threat is a false dichotomy.

China is a rival. They can be a friendly rival or an unfriendly rival, but they neither want to sacrifice themselves to protect us nor harm themselves to spite us.

They are just a neighbour competing with us, like many other countries in the world.

Isaac Trumbley, Kingston, Canada

希望我们也记住这句话，走自己的路，做好自己的事情。

Your conclusion is all the same as mine.

After I went through all posts on that, I believe only ourselves have a say about what we will be.