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【馬凱碩：滿目瘡痍的美國夢——1%所有，1%所治，1%所享的美國政府】新加坡資深外交官馬凱碩曾擔任新加坡駐聯合國大使、聯合國安理會主席。在其新作《亞洲的21世紀》一書中，馬凱碩全面深入分析了全球挑戰與國際治理方案。面對緊張的地緣政治形勢，中美兩國應如何共處？一度羨煞眾人的“美國夢”如今還美嗎？馬凱碩在接受採訪時表示，在國際層面，美國不應試圖阻止中國的回歸，這是不可能成功的，長期地緣政治對抗對雙方和國際社會都不好。在國內問題上，昔日的“美國夢”已經幻滅，取而代之的是金權政治下1%人所有、1%人所治、1%人所享的美國政府。美國50%底層人民收入近30年未曾上升，1%的頂層富人卻賺得盆滿缽滿，是時候正視財閥政治這個嚴峻問題了。 Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani was Singapore's ambassador to the United Nations and served as president of the UN Security Council. In his new book "The Asian 21st Century," Mahbubani offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the global dynamics, challenges and concrete solutions for restoring international governance. How should China and the United States cope with each other in the face of geopolitical tensions? Is the "American Dream" fading today? Mahbubani says that at the international level, the U.S. should stop trying to prevent the return of China, which cannot succeed, and that an all-out geopolitical contest would be bad for the two countries and the world. He also says the "American Dream" has been badly damaged and that the U.S. has become a plutocracy, where the government is "of the 1 percent, by the 1 percent and for the 1 percent." The average income in the U.S. for people in the bottom 50 percent hasn't gone up for 30 years, whereas those in the top 1 percent are seeing tremendous exponential growth in their wealth. Mahbubani says it's in America's interest to deal with this serious problem squarely. http://t.cn/A6JYkgt5