蘇格蘭公投在全世界引起了什么反響？

How Scotland's 'No' vote resonates around the world

中國日報網 2014-09-26 10:37

India

- Andrew North

Demands for a referendum persist in Kashmir, but the chances of it happening are remote

India's foreign minister didn't know Scotland was considering divorce, until an aide whispered in her ear. A more pressing concern for some Indians was what it meant for the price of Scotch.

There's also been some schadenfreudein the air, watching their former colonial master prepare to "partition" itself.

For many, the idea that the UK was about to give away some of its territory voluntarily - and because the British prime minister himself had allowed a vote - was hard to comprehend.

And if the Scots had voted "Yes", it would have set an uncomfortable precedent in Kashmir. India has never carried out its 1948 promise to hold a referendum there, and Kashmiris were quick to make the comparison with the Scots getting a vote.

So it's not surprising Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's initial reaction to the idea the UK could break up was "God forbid". It would have just made things too complicated.

印度

——安德魯·諾斯（Andrew North）

克什米爾(Kashmir)一直在尋求獨立，但它獨立的機會十分渺茫。

直到助手在耳邊低聲告知，印度外長才了解到蘇格蘭打算進行獨立公投。而一些印度的民眾更關心此事對蘇格蘭威士忌的價格所產生的影響。

對于自己的前殖民主要“分裂”，一些印度民眾對此有些幸災樂禍。

而對許多人來說，英國志愿放棄自己的領土以及英國首相允許進行獨立公投令人難以理解。

如果蘇格蘭成功獨立，這無疑會讓克什米爾人如鯁在喉。印度從未踐行其在1948年對克什米爾的承諾——允許克什米爾進行獨立公投?？耸裁谞柸撕芸鞂炎砸雅c獲得選票的蘇格蘭人進行對比。

所以這也不奇怪為什么當印度外長蘇什馬?斯瓦拉杰(Sushma Swaraj)聽到英國可能會分裂說法時，會認為這是“上帝不允許的”。

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