1.媒體來源:
Radio.com
2.記者署名:
Dan Mennella
3.完整新聞標題:
Former NBA Star: I Warned Players Not to Support Anti-China Propaganda
前NBA球員大衛韋斯特:別上反中陰謀的當
4.完整新聞內文:
Longtime NBA star David West is accusing a group of lawmakers of using NBA
players as pawns in a propaganda campaign targeting China.
征戰球場多年的NBA球星大衛韋斯特(David West)指控,有一群議員正在利用NBA球員作
為棋子,好針對中國發動宣傳戰。
Conservative senators including Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton have
publicly called out the league since its high-profile crackup with China over
a pro-Hong Kong tweet posted last year by Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey.
當休斯頓火箭隊總管達瑞爾莫雷(Daryl Morey)去年寫了一則支持香港的推特之後,NBA
和中國之間就出現了裂痕,而Josh Hawley、Marco Rubio、Tom Cotton等保守派議員也為
此指責NBA。
Those senators and other China hardliners say the league caved when it should
have supported Morey's free speech.
這些議員和其他強硬反中派表示,NBA應該力挺莫雷的言論自由,而非處處退讓。
But West says he reached out to some NBA players to caution them that those
urging them to support Morey might have motives other than the professed
liberation of Hong Kong protesters.
但大衛韋斯特表示,他曾向一些NBA球員警告,那些催促他們力挺莫雷的人,其目的可能
不像表面上所說的一樣,只是為了支持香港抗爭者而已。
"When Daryl Morey, he was with the Houston Rockets, he made comments about
Hong Kong earlier in the year. ... I got on the phone with a bunch of NBA
guys, and I was like 'Don't let them pull you into this bullshit, because
it's the Iraq war-, weapons of mass destruction-type propaganda again," West
recently told Danny Haiphong of Black Agenda Report.
「當休斯頓火箭隊總管達瑞爾莫雷今年稍早談到香港議題時,我跟一群NBA球員通過電話
,並說:『千萬不要讓他們把你拖進這趟渾水裡,因為這又是一次伊拉克戰爭大規模殺傷
型武器式的政治宣傳活動。』」
The issue is more complicated than how it's presented in US media, West
explained.
大衛韋斯特解釋道,這個議題遠比美國媒體所報導的來得更加錯綜複雜。
"In the late 1940s, when China got its independence