Earlier this year, I was chatting with Richard Haass, the esteemed head of the US’s Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), when I casually asked him how I could become a member. After all, I have spent much of my life travelling around the globe and love participating in international debates of the type that the CFR think-tank stages so well.
今年早些时候,我与美国对外关系委员会(Council On Foreign Relations,简称CFR)受人尊敬的会长理查德·哈斯(Richard Haass)聊天,我无意中问到该如何成为委员会中的一名成员。毕竟我大量时间都在环游世界,也喜欢参与CFR的智囊团精心筹办的国际讨论。
The answer from Haass, however, was politely firm – and negative. “You can’t join, since you’re not American, he observed. Never mind that the CFR prides itself on promoting international dialogue, or makes a point of welcoming journalists. Since the CFR was founded nine decades ago, its rules have insisted that “membership and term membership is restricted to US citizens (native-born or naturalised) and permanent residents who have applied to become citizens. Someone like me, who has been living in New York as a British citizen on a work visa, does not qualify. To attend a CFR debate, I must be invited by a “proper American citizen.
然而,哈斯委婉而又确切地给出了否定的答复。他说:“你不能加入,因为你不是美国人。尽管CFR以推动国际对话为荣,也特别欢迎记者,但由于CFR是90年前创建的,其规则一直都是“只有美国公民(土生土长或已入美国籍的)或者已经申请加入国籍的永久居民,才能获得成员资格或者有期限的成员资格。而像我这样只有工作签证在纽约生活的英国人,是没有资格加入的。要参加CFR的讨论,我必须获得一个“合适的美国公民的邀请。
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