主题：美国的黑天鹅 -- 本嘉明

（华盛顿法新电）美国总统特朗普透露，他本月6日与到访的中国国家主席习近平在餐桌上“享用甜点”时，下令对叙利亚发动军事攻击，而习近平当时得知美国的行动后，给予认可。

特朗普在美国福克斯商业新闻网12日播出的专访中说：“我们刚吃完晚饭，正在享用甜点，那是一块非常漂亮的巧克力蛋糕，习主席吃得津津有味……后来我收到将领们通知说军舰已经就位和上弹，接下来要怎么做？我们决定就这么办，所以就把导弹发射出去。”

特朗普说他当下就对习近平透露美国的这个军事行动。“我说‘主席先生，让我跟你说件事’——那正是享用甜点的时候——‘我们刚发射了59枚导弹’。”

特朗普说，习近平听了之后“顿了10秒，然后要求通译员再说一遍”。就在特朗普“以为那不是好迹象”时，习近平回应说“对于如此残暴地使用毒气危害儿童和婴儿的人，这（军事打击）是可以的……他认为没有问题。他同意了。”

“And I was given the message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded. What do you do? And we made a determination to do it. So the missiles were on the way.

“And I said: ‘Mr President, let me explain something to you … we’ve just launched 59 missiles, heading to Iraq [sic] … heading toward Syria and I want you to know that.’

“I didn’t want him to go home … and then they say: ‘You know the guy you just had dinner with just attacked [Syria].’”

Asked how the leader of China, which alongside Russia has repeatedly blocked UN resolutions targeting the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, had reacted, Trump said: “He paused for 10 seconds and then he asked the interpreter to please say it again – I didn’t think that was a good sign.”

“And he said to me, anybody that uses gases – you could almost say, or anything else – but anybody that was so brutal and uses gases to do that to young children and babies, it’s OK. He was OK with it. He was OK.”