Despite several weeks of intense US pressure to soften - or even retract - the proposed law, China’s leaders did little more than attempt to reinforce their position that “non-peaceful” (i.e., military) measures would serve strictly as a last resort - which had already been assumed anyway. The Bush administration’s reaction was uncharacteristically blunt, with its call for “Beijing to reconsider the passage of the law'” – a rather directly worded intrusion into what China considers to be an internal matter.
尽管几周来美国大力施压，企图软化——甚至阻止——这项法案，中国的领导人们却无动于衷，仅仅是重申了他们的立场，即绝不承诺放弃“非和平”（即军事化）手段——反正人们早就知道。布什政府的反应异常生硬，呼吁“北京重新考虑是否通过这项法律”——在中国看来，这是对内政相当直接的干涉。