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新西兰把澳大利亚当做世界上“最好的朋友”，澳大利亚呢？_我的网站
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On Monday afternoon, Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, set foot once again on the soil of the Mu Us Desert, in the Uxin Banner of Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He first came here in 2000. Back then, the land was little more than drifting sand. Today, it is green with trees – a transformation driven by decades of local effort.
He stood within Sakolsky Forest, a woodland formally named to honor his early donation toward local ecological restoration. There, he carried out a plan he had held long before this trip: filling a jar with sand from the desert to bring home to the US.
More than two decades ago, sand was the one thing this place had in abundance. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by the tireless efforts of Chinese desert fighter Yin Yuzhen and her husband to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert. He raised $5,000 – equivalent in 1999 to three years of income for Yin’s entire family – to fund their local tree-planting initiative.
The young saplings bought with that donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
When Sakolsky met Yin at the airport on Sunday, 26 years after his first visit to Inner Mongolia, he joked that he could not take a tree from the Mu Us Desert, but he could slip some sand into his shoes and carry a piece of the land back with him. Now, he had found exactly the sand he wanted – not just any sand, but from a place where persistence had turned desert into life, and where his own name had become part of that story.
“Promise is a promise,” he said. “Ms. Yin made a promise, and she fulfilled it.”
For Sakolsky, the sand is not just dirt. It is a metaphor, a bridge, a shared ground. He plans to tell his grandchildren what it means. “It’s not just a piece of sand in the jar,” he said. “It’s a jar of love.”
He used the jar of sand to symbolize that America and China share a relationship rooted in the same soil. He shook the jar, holding its two ends as if they were the two countries, and said that it shows we’re all on the same planet.
There is an old American joke, he noted, that if you dig a hole deep enough, you will eventually reach China. “We’re all on the same planet,” he said.
Earlier that day, while visiting Yin’s home, he spoke about the need for Americans and Chinese to see each other as family. “All Americans should understand that Chinese people and Americans can be family,” he said. “We can transcend differences if we focus on our common ground. We all love our countries, and we all value loyalty and respect – these are the shared virtues we hold dear.”
As for the sand he collected, Sakolsky said he would treat it as a treasure, alongside all his other precious keepsakes from China. He expects to display it in his living room – a daily reminder of the forest that carries his name and the people who made it grow.
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二 | Sophie 编译 总理Christopher Luxon表示，澳大利亚是新西兰在世界上最亲密的朋友，他不介意澳大利亚将另一个国家作为最好的朋友。 新西兰的政客们感到很困惑，因为他们发现自己卷入了一场关于澳大利亚在世界上最亲密的朋友的争论。
三 | Advertise with us 周一，澳大利亚贸易部长Don Farrell在回答塔斯马尼亚州参议员Claire Chandler的问题后，这个话题被搅得一团乱。Chandler声称，美国是澳大利亚“最值得信赖的国际伙伴”。 “我不确定美国是否是我们最信任的盟友。”Farrell参议员在参议院说。 “在整个历史上，我会说是新西兰。我认为我们最亲密的国际盟友是新西兰。” 在新西兰，人们的反应要么是对被提名感到高兴，要么是对这场辩论感到困惑。 外交部长Winston Peters在1月份与国防部长联合访问澳大利亚后，声称新西兰成为了澳大利亚政府优先考虑的国家。
四 | “Judith Collins和我本人与我们在墨尔本的同行的会晤，对我们两国的关系产生了爆炸性的影响。”他笑着说，“这是毫无疑问的。我们正在取得一些非常快速的进展。” Collins说，澳大利亚是新西兰最好的朋友，“当然，已经很多年了。” 当被问及新西兰最好的朋友是谁时，Luxon毫不犹豫地回答说“是澳大利亚”，并希望两国的友谊能够更加牢固。
五 | “我们希望加强与澳大利亚的交往。我们希望看到在安全、国防和情报方面有更多的合作。” “我们当然希望成为太平洋地区的好伙伴。” “重要的是，我们认为仍然有机会扩大和发展单一经济市场。
六 | ” Luxon表示，如果澳大利亚将美国视为最值得信赖的合作伙伴，他不会感到被轻视。
七 | “这不会让我感到惊讶。他们有着牢固的、长期的盟友关系，而我们的盟友关系，我们唯一的盟友是澳大利亚。” 澳大利亚与新西兰和美国都有国防协议，但惠灵顿只与堪培拉结盟了。 虽然这让新西兰政客们很容易就能说出谁是最好的朋友，但澳大利亚人的选择却引发了争论。
八 | Farrell参议员的回应激怒了以其外交事务发言人Simon Birmingham为首的反对党。 “Don Farrell的行为是对美国的侮辱，他应该为此道歉。”Birmingham对Sky News说。
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