在昨晚八點半美國在台協會AIT對外宣布250萬劑將運抵台灣的這項消息之前，國際重要媒體「路透社」（Reuters)在約半小時前就引述美國行政官員的說法，獨家披露了這項消息，可見這消息來源的正確性與權威性！
值得注意的是，這位匿名資深官員以及另一位具名國務院官員在受訪時，透露出美方決定加碼援助台灣的政策考量。我把這些重點引述整理翻譯，跟大家分享。
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一位政府資深官員告訴路透社，美國將於週六向台灣運送 250 萬劑 COVID-19 疫苗，這是華府之前為該島分配的疫苗數量的三倍多，該島面臨來自中國越來越大的政治和軍事壓力。
The United States will ship 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan on Saturday, a senior administration official told Reuters, more than tripling Washington's previous allocation of shots for the island, which has faced increasing political and military pressure from China.
這位官員說，“我們的疫苗沒有附加條件，”並補充說台灣“在全球市場上獲得疫苗的努力面臨著不公平的挑戰”。
"Our vaccines do not come with strings attached," the official said, adding Taiwan had "faced unfair challenges in its efforts to acquire vaccines on the global marketplace."
拜登政府資深官員說：“我們認為，中國出於政治目的阻擋購買的這些企圖應該受到譴責。”
"We believe that these attempts by China to block purchases, for political purposes, are reprehensible," the senior Biden administration official said.
國務院資深官員Jonathan Fritz週四表示，中國“非常積極地利用疫苗捐贈作為籌碼，誘引更多台灣外交夥伴改變承認”。
Jonathan Fritz, a senior State Department official, said on Thursday that China had been "very aggressively using vaccine donations as a lever to induce more of Taiwan's diplomatic partners to switch recognition."
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看到包括國民黨主席江啟臣、蔣萬安等人，昨晚也紛紛去AIT的臉書留言感謝，但如果這些人只是百般無奈的口頭感謝，卻看不懂美國這批250萬劑疫苗的重要意涵，那就枉費藍營內部有那麼多留學美國、英文流利的所謂領導菁英了！幫你們翻譯好了，上面的路透社報導，請好好再深讀一下。
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan-idUSKCN2DV0AX
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