Un dimanche de décembre à la campagne

Wikileaks - Wiki China - What's next?

En ce moment je suis encore plus heureux d'être de retour en France au moment où tout le monde (enfin peut-être pas vraiment tout le monde) débat de Wikileaks. En effet, le matin c'est juste le bonheur d'écouter FranceInter et en particulier les chroniques de géopolitique de Bernard Guetta et le soir de naviguer entre C dans l'air et Ce soir ou jamais (France 5 et France 3 respectivement).

Ces derniers jours tous ont débattus de Wikileaks, avec des invités plus intéressants les uns que les autres dont mon favori, Hubert Védrine.

Alors Wikileaks est-ce vraiment:
- le retour du dogme de la transparence façon "révolution culturelle" de Mao ou plus rien ne devait rester secret?
- pas tellement différent du Canard Enchainé, tradition bien française d'un journalisme d'investigation avec des méthodes à la limite de la légalité?
- un crime d'Etat ou un vulgaire délit/crime de droit commun (vol d'information via intrusion dans un système informatique)?
- une nouvelle forme de transparence citoyenne?
- une vaste blague?

C'est surement tout ça et bien d'autres choses aussi.

A la base il y a bien vol d'information. La plupart de ces informations ne révèle pas réellement de secret (le fait que Berlusconi soit fatigué lors des sommets internationaux à cause de ses nuits blanches passées avec des présentatrices de ses chaines de TV ou des "professionelles" d'un autre genre, ce n'est pas franchement la divulgation d'un secret d'état...).
Par contre le fait que ce soit écrit est un autre débat.

La question de fond soulevée par Hubert Védrine sur le besoin du secret en général qui est un élément fondamental et indispensable au fonctionnement de toute société, est bien plus intéressant: secret de l'instruction, secret médical et bien sur, secrets de famille... Alors quid du secret diplomatique?

Wikileaks va-t'il ruiner notre société?

Le vol possible maintenant de toute donnée informatique, et donc la sécurisation des données confidentielles, dont les données personnelles, n'est-ce pas là également le vrai sujet?

Voilà un bon débat comme je les aime bien!!!

Après un WE en Alsace, le plein de "poire" et de "prune", fabuleuse eau-de-vie, que j'aime ce terme, est fait, donc venez débattre à la maison quand vous voulez!

J'ai donc beaucoup, mais alors beaucoup apprécié l'artcile du International Herald Tribune sur Wikileaks-Wiki China ci-dessous, je suis sur que vous allez aussi adorer.

Aller, bon WE à tous.

SebT

(Sinon dernier point, félicitations à Cécile Duflot pour être classée par la revue américaine Foreign Policy comme la 32ème personne la plus influente au monde...)



From WikiChina
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers, I couldn’t help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? I suspect the cable would read like this:

Washington Embassy, People’s Republic of China, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Beijing, TOP SECRET/Subject: America today.

Things are going well here for China. America remains a deeply politically polarized country, which is certainly helpful for our goal of overtaking the U.S. as the world’s most powerful economy and nation. But we’re particularly optimistic because the Americans are polarized over all the wrong things.

There is a willful self-destructiveness in the air here as if America has all the time and money in the world for petty politics. They fight over things like — we are not making this up — how and where an airport security officer can touch them. They are fighting — we are happy to report — over the latest nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. It seems as if the Republicans are so interested in weakening President Obama that they are going to scuttle a treaty that would have fostered closer U.S.-Russian cooperation on issues like Iran. And since anything that brings Russia and America closer could end up isolating us, we are grateful to Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona for putting our interests ahead of America’s and blocking Senate ratification of the treaty. The ambassador has invited Senator Kyl and his wife for dinner at Mr. Kao’s Chinese restaurant to praise him for his steadfastness in protecting America’s (read: our) interests.

Americans just had what they call an “election.” Best we could tell it involved one congressman trying to raise more money than the other (all from businesses they are supposed to be regulating) so he could tell bigger lies on TV more often about the other guy before the other guy could do it to him. This leaves us relieved. It means America will do nothing serious to fix its structural problems: a ballooning deficit, declining educational performance, crumbling infrastructure and diminished immigration of new talent.

The ambassador recently took what the Americans call a fast train — the Acela — from Washington to New York City. Our bullet train from Beijing to Tianjin would have made the trip in 90 minutes. His took three hours — and it was on time! Along the way the ambassador used his cellphone to call his embassy office, and in one hour he experienced 12 dropped calls — again, we are not making this up. We have a joke in the embassy: “When someone calls you from China today it sounds like they are next door. And when someone calls you from next door in America, it sounds like they are calling from China!” Those of us who worked in China’s embassy in Zambia often note that Africa’s cellphone service was better than America’s.

But the Americans are oblivious. They travel abroad so rarely that they don’t see how far they are falling behind. Which is why we at the embassy find it funny that Americans are now fighting over how “exceptional” they are. Once again, we are not making this up. On the front page of The Washington Post on Monday there was an article noting that Republicans Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are denouncing Obama for denying “American exceptionalism.” The Americans have replaced working to be exceptional with talking about how exceptional they still are. They don’t seem to understand that you can’t declare yourself “exceptional,” only others can bestow that adjective upon you.

In foreign policy, we see no chance of Obama extricating U.S. forces from Afghanistan. He knows the Republicans will call him a wimp if he does, so America will keep hemorrhaging $190 million a day there. Therefore, America will lack the military means to challenge us anywhere else, particularly on North Korea, where our lunatic friends continue to yank America’s chain every six months so that the Americans have to come and beg us to calm things down. By the time the Americans do get out of Afghanistan, the Afghans will surely hate them so much that China’s mining companies already operating there should be able to buy up the rest of Afghanistan’s rare minerals.

Most of the Republicans just elected to Congress do not believe what their scientists tell them about man-made climate change. America’s politicians are mostly lawyers — not engineers or scientists like ours — so they’ll just say crazy things about science and nobody calls them on it. It’s good. It means they will not support any bill to spur clean energy innovation, which is central to our next five-year plan. And this ensures that our efforts to dominate the wind, solar, nuclear and electric car industries will not be challenged by America.

Finally, record numbers of U.S. high school students are now studying Chinese, which should guarantee us a steady supply of cheap labor that speaks our language here, as we use our $2.3 trillion in reserves to quietly buy up U.S. factories. In sum, things are going well for China in America.

Thank goodness the Americans can’t read our diplomatic cables.

Embassy Washington.


Maureen Dowd is off today.