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Robert Jimison

2024年4月25日

一名乌克兰炮兵在操作美制M777榴弹炮,摄于2022年。新的外国援助计划包括用于购买美国防御系统的数十亿美元,乌克兰官员近几个月来一直表示急需这些系统。 Ivor Prickett for The New York Times

The Senate on Tuesday approved a $95.3 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that had been stalled in Congress for months.

周二,美国参议院批准了一项针对乌克兰、以色列和台湾的953亿美元对外援助法案,该法案曾在国会搁置数月。

The legislation, a version of which passed the Senate in February with bipartisan support, passed 79 to 18, reflecting widespread backing in both parties.

今年2月,参议院在两党的支持下曾经通过一个类似版本,这次的法案以79票对18票获得通过,反映了两党的广泛支持。

To steer around opposition from right-wing Republicans in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, used a convoluted plan to pass it over the weekend. He broke the package into three pieces for each of the countries — allowing different coalitions to back each one — and added a fourth bill that includes a new round of sanctions on Iran and a measure to require the sale of TikTok by its Chinese owner or ban it in the United States. After passage, all four were folded together into one bill and sent to the Senate.

为了避开众议院右翼共和党人的反对,众议院议长、路易斯安那州共和党人迈克·约翰逊采用了迂回之道,于周末通过了这项法案。他将法案分成三项内容,分别针对每个国家——每个部分都有不同的支持者——并新增了第四项内容,包括对伊朗实施新一轮制裁的措施,以及要求中国所有者出售TikTok,否则在美国禁用的措施。在通过之后,所有四项被合并成一项法案送交参议院。

Final approval by the Senate sends it to President Biden, who said he would sign it on Wednesday.

参议院最终批准后,该法案将送交拜登总统,总统表示他将于周三签署该法案。

Here is what the foreign aid package contains:

以下是对外援助法案的内容:

$60.8 billion for Ukraine

向乌克兰提供608亿美元

Military funding for Ukraine makes up the largest part of the package, totaling $60.8 billion. A sizable amount is set aside to “replenish American defense stockpiles” and it grants billions for the purchase of U.S. defense systems, which Ukrainian officials have said for months are badly needed.

向乌克兰提供的军事资金占整个援助计划的大头,总额达到608亿美元。相当一部分用于“补充美国的国防库存”,并为购买美国国防系统提供数十亿美元的资金,数月来,乌克兰官员一直表示这是急需的。

The bill closely mirrors the original Senate package, but the House added a requirement for the Biden administration to send more American-made missiles known as long-range ATACMS to Kyiv. The United States previously supplied Ukraine with a cluster-munition version of the missiles, after President Biden overcame his longstanding reluctance to providing the weapons and permitted the Pentagon to deliver them covertly.

该法案与参议院最初的法案版本基本一致,但众议院增加了一项要求,即拜登政府向基辅提供更多美国制造的远程ATACMS导弹。此前,拜登总统克服了长期以来对提供这种武器的顾虑,允许五角大楼向乌克兰秘密提供这种导弹的集束弹药版本。

Another provision included by the House directs the president to seek repayment of $10 billion in economic assistance, a concept supported by former President Donald J. Trump, who has pushed for any aid to Kyiv to be in the form of a loan. But the bill also allows the president to forgive those loans starting in 2026.

在众议院的议案中包括另一项条款,它要求总统寻求乌克兰偿还100亿美元的经济援助,前总统特朗普也支持这种做法,他一直在推动以贷款的形式向基辅提供所有援助。但该法案也允许总统从2026年开始免除这些贷款。

$26.4 billion for Israel and humanitarian aid 

向以色列和其他人道主义援助提供264亿美元

The bill sends roughly $15 billion in military aid to Israel as the country continues its offensive against Hamas in Gaza and weighs a response to attacks from Iran. It prioritizes defensive capabilities, providing more than $5 billion to replenish the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Iron Beam defense systems. An additional $2.4 billion is directed to current U.S. military operations in the region.

该法案向以色列提供了约150亿美元的军事援助,该国正在继续对加沙的哈马斯发动进攻,并且在权衡如何回应伊朗发动的袭击。该法案优先考虑以色列的防御能力,提供逾50亿美元用于补充“铁穹”、“大卫投石索”和“铁光束”等防御系统。另有24亿美元用于美国目前在该地区的军事行动。

Another $9 billion goes to “worldwide humanitarian aid,” including for civilians in Gaza. Like the Senate bill, the package bars funding from going to UNRWA, the main United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinians in Gaza. It does not put any conditions on military aid, a sticking point for some left-wing Democrats who have become more vocal in their calls to force the Israeli government to modify its military tactics in Gaza.

另有90亿美元用于“全球人道主义援助”,其中包括面向加沙平民的援助。与参议院法案一样,该法案禁止资金流向向巴勒斯坦加沙提供援助的主要联合国机构——联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处。对于一些左翼倾向的民主党人来说,没有对军事援助设置任何条件是一个争论的焦点,他们越来越强烈地呼吁迫使以色列政府修改在加沙的军事策略。

$8.1 billion for Taiwan and other allies

为台湾和其他盟友提供81亿美元援助

A third piece provides $8.1 billion in aid for Taiwan and other U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific region to counter China. The House attached a provision allowing the Pentagon to quickly provide Taiwan with more offensive weapons and provides billions more for the purchase of advanced U.S. weapons technology as the U.S. and Taiwanese governments continue to build up their alliances to deter China from invading the island.

第三部分为台湾和美国在印太地区的其他盟友提供81亿美元的援助,以对抗中国。众议院附加了一项条款,允许五角大楼迅速向台湾提供更多进攻性武器,并在美国和台湾政府继续建立联盟以阻止中国入侵台湾之际,为购买美国先进武器技术提供数十亿美元。

A sweetener bill

一份更容易接受的法案

A fourth part of the package, added by the House, includes several Republican priorities that Mr. Johnson cobbled together to make the aid package more palatable to members of his own party.

援助计划的第四部分由众议院添加,包括了几项共和党的优先事项,约翰逊将它们组合在一起,以便该法案更容易为他所在政党的成员接受。

One piece redirects funds from seized Russian assets to offset American aid to Ukraine. Republicans who back the plan say it will ensure that Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, is held financially accountable for the war.

其中一项是将扣押的俄罗斯资产中的资金用于抵消美国对乌克兰的援助。支持该计划的共和党人表示,该计划将确保俄罗斯总统普京为这场战争承担经济责任。

American allies, including France and Germany, have been skeptical about the viability of such a move under international law. They have instead been pushing for a solution that uses the proceeds on the interest from the nearly $300 billion of frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine directly, either in the form of loans or as collateral to borrow money.

包括法国和德国在内的美国盟友一直对该举措在国际法下的可行性持怀疑态度。他们一直在推动一项解决方案,利用将近3000亿美元遭到冻结的俄罗斯资产的利息收入直接提供给乌克兰,可以是以贷款的形式或作为借款的担保。

The bill also imposes sanctions on Iranian and Russian officials and further limit the export of U.S. technology used to make Iranian drones.

该法案还对伊朗和俄罗斯官员实施制裁,并进一步限制用于制造伊朗无人机的美国技术的出口。

And it includes legislation to force the parent company of TikTok, the popular social media app, to sell the platform or face a ban in the United States. It mirrors a bill that the House passed last month. But it includes an option to extend the deadline for a sale to nine months from the original six, and allows the president to extend it for another 90 days if progress toward a sale is being made.

法案还包括一项立法,要求广受欢迎的社交媒体应用TikTok的母公司出售该平台,否则将在美国面临禁令。它与众议院上个月通过的一项法案相似。但它包括一个选项,将出售的最后期限从原来的六个月延长到九个月,并允许总统在出售方面取得进展的情况下再延长90天。

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