【新唐人2014年11月14日讯】最近备受关注的墨西哥高铁撤标事件，可谓一波三折。就在外界还在对撤标原因议论纷纷之际，墨西哥媒体又爆出了总统夫人涉嫌收受中标方千万豪宅贿赂的丑闻。更具戏剧性的一幕的是，尽管这起轰动墨西哥的政坛丑闻涉及到了中国，但是中共官方媒体竟然一反常态，对此进行大肆嘲笑和调侃，令外界一片讶然。
在墨西哥突然宣布撤销与中铁建高达44亿美元的高铁大单后，墨西哥总统培尼亚又陷入了一场新的风波。
11号，墨西哥CNN报导，墨西哥女记者卡门•亚里斯特吉(Carmen Aristegui)在9号披露，总统培尼亚的夫人里维拉，“涉嫌收受参与墨高铁项目竞标的中国企业赠送的一套豪宅”。文中描述，里维拉去年5月在这一豪宅内，接受了某西班牙杂志记者的专访，导致豪宅意外曝光。
据报导，这一豪宅位于墨西哥最著名的豪宅区内，建筑面积达1414平方米，价值约700万美元。而这座豪宅的持有和承建公司，竟是不久前中标的高铁承建商Grupo Higa建筑集团名下的一家子公司。
此前，墨西哥反对党一直质疑在墨西哥高铁项目中，这些作为中铁建合作方的企业和执政党关系密切，总统培尼亚有受贿的嫌疑。
北京时政观察人士华颇：“墨西哥这个国家是民主制度，它不管任何人权力都要得到制约。当然在工程招标之中出现一点瑕疵，都会被政治反对派进行攻击。所以这种背景之下，墨西哥总统取消项目，重新招标。为什么要取消呢？就因为可能是墨西哥总统和中国企业之间出现不清不楚的瓜葛。所以墨西哥总统为了挽回政治影响，一种危机处理吧，所以就取消了这个项目。”
令人意外的是，这起牵扯到中国的墨西哥政坛丑闻，并没有如同以往一样，被当局“低调”处理，反而罕见的成为了中共各大媒体的热炒新闻。
今天早上，央视美女发来新料：“总统的房子出事了！”“要感谢培尼亚的演员老婆里维拉，正是这位姐们把记者请到家里给她拍照，才在闲谈中给了人线索，成了‘坑夫’高手。”很难想像，这些颇具“喜感”且充满讽刺调侃的话，来自中共喉舌媒体《人民日报》。
美国南加州大学公共政策博士叶科:“这句话是带着一个看笑话的心态。我想它看笑话的话，一个是看外国人笑话，第二也可能有内斗的因素。因为《人民日报》文宣系统是受刘云山的掌控，刘云山等江派人马与习近平和李克强阵营‘厮杀’很激烈，那么这件事情出了问题的话，它有可能看习李政权的笑话，这是从文章的心态上来说吧。”
而与此相反的是，据《中新网》报导，在11月11号的APEC峰会上，中共国务院总理李克强不苟言笑的指出，中国企业中标结果是“完全公正合法的”。
李克强和中共媒体释放出截然不同的两种态度，令外界不禁猜测，墨西哥高铁得而复失的背后，藏有怎样的复杂因素。
华颇：“因为他（李克强）把高铁项目也当成一个重点力推。这次受挫，一是墨西哥的问题，因为它那种制度下再隐秘的事情也得曝光。二来也不排除中国内部权斗，中国企业或者政府内部出现内鬼，把这个豪宅之事向外界泄露出来，使中国高铁和墨西哥高项目铁搁浅，因为现在高铁项目当家人是李克强，所以故意使个绊子，让他跌倒，也有这个可能。”
但有评论人士指出，中共官媒如此高调，也有可能是在转移外界视线。因为截止目前，中共官媒谈论的重点全部集中在墨西哥总统身上，而对于中国高铁建设公司是否行贿的问题却只字不提。
叶科：“就是真正关注的实质上对中国人来说，可能不是墨西哥总统的丑闻，而是中国企业在整个过程当中卷入什么样一个腐败？最值得关注的是招标过程当中那些联合体公司到底是怎么样去违法运作。就是他们用了什么样一个手段最后拿到一个项目。”
美国中文杂志《中国事务》总编辑伍凡指出，事实证明，在中国大陆一向无往不利的“拿钱开路”的手段，对于西方民主国家的企业或政府就不那么行得通了。
采访/易如 编辑/张天宇 后制/钟元
The CCP’s Strange Attitude Towards The Mexican High-Speed Rail Trap Door
Recently, the Mexican High Speed Rail (HSR) headline
incident of the winning bidder of Mexico High Speed Rail
(HSR) has experienced twists and turns.
While the media was discussing the reasons the winning
bidder was denied, the Mexican media also exposed that
the President’s wife is suspected of accepting bribes
of ten million dollars mansion from the winner of the bid.
More ironically, despite this sensational political scandal
in Mexico related to the Chinese, the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) official media behaved uncharacteristically,
mocking and ridiculing the news.
This surprised the public.
After the sudden announcement of the Mexican Government
cancelling the HSR winning bid, which was awarded to China
Railway Construction Company (CRCC), with up to $4.4 billion
contract, the President of Mexico Peña has gotten caught up
in a new storm.
On Nov. 11, CNN Mexico reported that on Nov. 9, female
journalist Carmen Chatterjee disclosed that the President’s
wife, Peña Rivera, is “suspected of being involved in receiving
a luxurious mansion sent by a Chinese bidding consultant
for the Mexico HSR project."
The article says that last May, Peña Rivera interviewed a certain
journalist of a Spanish magazine, which led to the unexpected
exposure of the luxurious mansion scandal.
It is reported that the luxurious mansion worth about $7 million
with a floor area of 1,414 square meters and is located
in Mexico’s most well known luxury property district.
The mansion’s owner as well as the construction company
are actually a subsidiary company of the recent successful
bid winner of HSR construction contractor Grupo Higa.
Allegedly, the company is ready to transfer
the mansion to Mrs. Peña’s name.
Earlier, the Mexican opposition party has questioned the HSR
projects in Mexico as well as the suspect of President Peña
bribery because the ruling party keeps a close relationship
with these companies as partners of CRCC.
Beijing politics watcher Hua Po: “Mexico is a democratic
country which constrains the power no matter who gets it.
Of course, the issue of the engineering project bid will be
attacked by the political opposition.
So with this background, the Mexican President had to cancel
the project bid winner and re-organize the bidding process.
Why was the bid winner cancelled?
It may be in that unclear connection between
the President of Mexico and China companies.
So the Mexican President cancelled the project bid winner
for the sake of restoring political influence and handling the crisis."
Surprisingly, this political scandal in Mexico is pertinent
to China becomes a hot news among all CCP’s official media,
which is, not like the usual past practice,
dampened in a “low-key" by the censorship.
“This morning, CCTV beauty sent a new message:
The president’s house in trouble!"
“Thanks to actress Peña Rivera, the wife of President Peña.
It is the lady who invited the reporters to go home
for taking her pictures, offered the clue for other during
the casual conversations, and hence became the criminal
of “hurting husband."
It is hard to imagine that these rather “delightful"
and full of ridiculously satirical words are all
from the CCP mouthpiece media “People’s Daily."
Ye Ke is a PhD of Public Policy at University
of Southern California.
He says: “This sentence is take an attitude of viewing a joke.
I think if they regarded it as a joke,
then the first is to see a foreigner’s joke,
and the second is relevant to the internal fight.
Because People’s Daily is subject to the control
of Liu Yunshan, who belongs to Jiang Zemin’s faction
which is engaged in a fierce internal fighting with Xi Jinping
and Li Keqiang.
So if this thing is a scandal, then it is possible for them to see
the ridiculous matters of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang’s regime,
which is concluded from the articles."
On the contrary, according to the China News Service report,
on Nov. 11, in the APEC summit, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
sternly pointed out that Chinese companies winning
the bid was “entirely fair and lawful."
Li and the CCP media had two entirely different attitudes,
sparking the public to speculate
that there were complicated factors
behind the Mexico HSR project.
The bid winner was firstly declared to be the CCP
but later cancelled.
Hua Po: “Because he (Li Keqiang) has focused on promoting
HSR projects, this setback first resulted from Mexico’s
problem, because no matter how secret matters are,
they will have to be exposed;
Secondly, it resulted from the internal power struggle,
and a certain internal spy of the Chinese enterprise
or government who released the luxurious mansion matter
to the public.
This brought the Chinese HSR and Mexico HSR projects
to a halt, because now the HSR project is headed by
Li Keqiang, so they deliberately make a trip enmesh
and let him fall down, and this is possible for him to fall down."
Some critics have pointed out that the CCP official media
reported the news in such a high-profile.
It may be used for diverting the outside attention.
Until now, the focus of the CCP official media is concentrated
on all news about the Mexican president, but do not mention
any words about whether China’s HSR Construction Company
involved in the bribery of the case.
Ye Ke: “Essentially for the Chinese people, their biggest
concern might be what other sorts of corruption cases
Chinese enterprises are involved in other than
the Mexican President scandal?
The most concerned aspects of the scandal is to highlight
how the consortium operates itself during the bidding process.
The is to day, how can they obtain a final project
by what sort of final way eventually."
American Chinese magazine “China Affairs" Chief-Editor
Wu Fan pointed out that the fact proves that, in the Chinese
mainland, “take the money and run" means are not
practicable for an enterprise or government agencies
of Western democratic countries.
Interview/YiRu Edit/Zhang Tianyu Post-Production/ZhongYuan
