News about gorillas

"China is like an 8-pound gorilla in Asia Pacific." This remark came from Obama recently. According to a report by the Overseas Chinese News Network on February 23, 216, the president of a country said that other countries are like gorillas? Don't be surprised, this sentence is actually an American slang. However, when talking about China, American politicians are very fond of using it.

According to Reuters, on February 22nd, 216, Obama met with the governors at the White House. At the meeting, some people raised concerns about China's iron ore export. "They (China) know that they can't keep the export-driven growth model going forever, but it will take time to change. Now they really want to solve short-term problems by selling a lot of state-subsidized products to the US market. We have clearly told them that the fact is that this will not work, and we will use tools to ensure that it will not work. "

Obama also called on state governors to put pressure on Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) to promote American exports to the Asia-Pacific region. "Our concern there [in Asia Pacific] is that China is like an 8-pound gorilla," he said. If we allow them to set the trade rules there, American companies and American workers will be excluded. "

gorilla? This sentence is quite sensational in the Chinese context. But in America, "8-pound gorilla" is just an American slang.

There is even a joke riddle about this slang: "Where will an 8-pound gorilla sit?" "Want to sit where do bai. （Anywhere it wants to。 It can be seen that this slang is often used to describe someone or an organization that is very powerful and needs no scruples.

American politicians especially like to use this slang to describe China. As early as 24, Kerry, then the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party of the United States, once told the media when referring to China: "China is an 8-pound gorilla. When necessary, we can also achieve our goal by sitting at the negotiating table with China in a way that suits our purpose. ".

Now more than ten years have passed, it seems that China's image in the eyes of American politicians has not changed. Since Obama took office and put forward a high-profile strategy of "Asia-Pacific rebalancing", the United States has been trying to "return to Asia" in recent years. Before Obama said "China is like an 8-pound gorilla", he had just finished a closed-door informal meeting with the leaders of the 1 ASEAN countries.

However, there are different voices in the United States about the move that the goal of the United States returning to Asia first points to China. "The United States should let China rise peacefully," the Huffington Post reported on the 14th that the United States deployed more American military resources to East Asia by using the "Asia-Pacific rebalancing" strategy. However, this forward-looking containment strategy is reminiscent of the Cold War, outdated and unsustainable. With the rapid economic growth and military strength of China, China, which is close to the region, will one day have more local advantages than the United States, which is far away and deeply in debt of $19 trillion. With nuclear weapons as the ultimate guarantee of national security, the United States can peacefully make China rise to be a great power in East Asia.

Many netizens in China expressed shock at Obama's gorilla remarks. However, some netizens who know this slang look at it from a more rational perspective.

In American slang, another word for thug and thug means gorilla. China Daily News November 16, 214 Telecom: This is a story about trust and courage: when she was young, an 18-month-old girl was gently held in her arms by a gorilla; When she grew up, at the age of 25, she went deep into the jungle, and once again embraced her childhood playmates with deep affection under various searches.

This video of reunion after a long separation was shot four months ago. At that time, Tansi aspinall went deep into a primitive tropical rain forest in Gabon, a western African country, with his father Damian. They shuttled through the rain forest in a small boat, looking around with their probes and whispering the names of their old friends-the gorillas "Dajiala" and "Beames".

A few hours later, two familiar faces appeared in the jungle on the shore, and two adult gorillas threw doubts at the boat with a little excited eyes. When Tansi and Damian climbed down from the boat and boarded the river bank, a touching scene happened: the gorilla slowly moved forward, greeted Tansi with gentle movements, caressed and hugged, and sniffed or rubbed with his nose.

"it's amazing! I found them! " Tancy said, "Before I set out, I felt a little uneasy. Daguala and Beames have been living in the wild for more than ten years. Whether they still know me or not, and whether they will become barbaric and dangerous because of their years of wild life are unknown. But the moment I saw their gentle eyes, I immediately felt at ease and all my worries and fears disappeared. "

Tancy was born in a family of conservationists in Britain. When she was a child, many kinds of animals were raised in her family's manor. Tigers, gorillas and even wolves were her childhood "small partners". Among them, Dajiala and Beames, gorillas, are Tanxi's best friends, and they stayed with her until they were sent to Gabon's tropical jungle reserve in 22.

The "Espinol Fund" founded by Grandpa Tanxi to protect nature is still one of the most important assets of this family. At present, Tanxi has assisted his father to run two wildlife parks in Kent and Liam, England, and has bred more than 13 gorillas, of which more than 8 have returned to nature.