时代周刊:砧板上的TikTok(3)（在线收听）

The question is now not whether decoupling of the two economies will happen,

现在的问题不是这两个经济体是否会脱钩，

but how far it will go—and who will be targeted next.

而是会脱钩到什么程度——以及下一个被针对的又会是谁。

Chinese tech giant Tencent is a major investor in Reddit, for one.

举例来说，中国的科技巨头腾讯是Reddit的主要投资方之一。

Wanda Group owns AMC Cinemas and Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment.

万达集团收购了AMC影院和好莱坞电影制片厂传奇娱乐。

PR representatives of Chinese companies are terrified of courting American markets lest, as one recently told TIME, "we become the next Huawei."

中国企业的公关代表已经害怕涉足美国市场，担心——就像最近有人向《时代》周刊透露的那样——“我们会成为下一个华为。”

Or TikTok, it seems.

从当前的形势来看，也可以说是（成为下一个）TikTok。

Analysts are now watching to see if Beijing retaliates against U.S. firms with a strong China presence, such as Apple, Microsoft or Intel.

目前，分析人士正在观望北京方面是否会借助中国企业强大的市场地位报复苹果、微软、英特尔等美国企业。

"That danger is real," says Frenkel.

“这种风险是真实存在的，”弗伦克尔说。

"We've seen this kind of tit for tat over past years in the U.S.-China relationship."

“过去几年里，我们是看到过美中关系出现这种针锋相对的情况的。”

The relationship hasn't looked so rocky in decades.

近几十年来，中美两国关系从未像现在这样不稳定。

Each side has closed a consulate belonging to the other and expelled journalists.

双方都关闭了一家对方的领事馆，还驱逐了对方的记者。

The U.S. has banned Chinese graduate students with ties to the military,

美国已经禁止与中国军方有牵连的中国研究生入境，

and piled sanctions on officials over human-rights abuses in Xinjiang.

还对涉嫌“新疆侵犯人权”（不代表小编立场）问题的中国官员实施了制裁。

A proposal to ban all 92 million CCP members and their families from entering the U.S. is gaining traction.

一项禁止9200万共产党员及其家人进入美国的提案也受到了越来越多人的支持。

So what does the U.S. gain from this multifront blitzkrieg?

那么，美国从这场多战线的闪电战中得到了什么呢？

Some suspect China hawks are punishing Beijing before November,

一些人怀疑，考虑到特朗普在民调中的表现已经急转直下，

mindful of Trump's plummeting polls and the prospect of a Biden White House seeking to build bridges.

同时担心拜登入主白宫后会寻求铺路搭桥（修复中美关系），在中国问题上持鹰派立场的人士已经准备在11月（大选月）惩罚北京，

"Some in the Administration want to burn as much down as possible," Segal says, "so that it's very hard to reset the relationship."

“政府中有些人想的就是能把中美关系破坏到多糟就破坏到多糟，”西格尔说，“好让拜登当选也难与中国重修旧好。”