据德国之声网站报道，维基解密公开了据称是克林顿选战负责人伯德斯塔（John Podesta）的个人电子邮件，其中包括克林顿以个人名义进行的演说的内容节选。根据这些邮件，克林顿在2013年的一次演说中表示，在担任美国国务卿期间，她曾在数个议题上对中国采取强硬态度。
中国近期严词批评美韩计划部署针对朝鲜的导弹防御系统。克林顿在2013年的演说中称，她告知中国官员，美国可能会向该地区增派舰只，以应对朝鲜的导弹威胁。
克林顿说，如果朝鲜成功获得一枚弹道导弹，可能不单威胁美国在太平洋的盟国，而是“理论上可能真地能达到夏威夷和西海岸”。希拉里说，“我们要用导弹防御（系统）包围中国。我们要在该地区部署更多的舰队。所以中国，快点。要么你就控制住他们，要么我们就得去防御他们。”
“萨德”系统是美国导弹防御的利器（图源：VCG）
中国被认为是朝鲜的经济生命线，同时受到美国等国家批评，在遏制平壤的核野心方面没有采取足够措施。中国官方媒体也回应称，朝鲜不单是中国的责任。
根据维基解密，克林顿还曾私下批评中国在南中国海问题上的立场。中国声称对大部分海域拥有主权。今年7月，合法性受到质疑的国际仲裁庭，裁决中国对相关海域不拥有历史权利。
据这批邮件，克林顿在2013年的另一次演讲中说，如果南海属于中国，美国在二战后可以将太平洋命名为“美国海”。
她说：“我的对话伙伴一下子坐直了，说：‘你不能这么做。’我说：‘我们跟你们有一样的权利。你们以一些陶瓷碎片来声称（对南中国海的）主权，一些在某处环礁搁浅的渔船。’”
作为国务卿，克林顿曾七次访问中国，也是美国“重返亚洲”的推动者。北京则对该政策存在疑虑。克林顿曾因对中国政府的批评而受到中国官方媒体的谴责。
Hillary Clinton privately said the U.S. would "ring China with missile defense"
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BEIJING (AP) — Hillary Clinton privately said the U.S. would "ring China with missile defense" if the Chinese government failed to curb North Korea's nuclear program, a potential hint at how the former secretary of state would act if elected president.
Clinton's remarks were revealed by WikiLeaks in a hack of the Clinton campaign chairman's personal account. The emails include a document excerpting Clinton's private speech transcripts, which she has refused to release.
A section on China features several issues in which Clinton said she confronted the Chinese while leading the U.S. State Department.
China has harshly criticized the U.S. and South Korea's planned deployment of a missile-defense system against North Korea, which conducted its fifth nuclear test this year. But Clinton said she told Chinese officials that the U.S. might deploy additional ships to the region to contain the North Korean missile threat.
If North Korea successfully obtains a ballistic missile, it could threaten not just American allies in the Pacific, "but they could actually reach Hawaii and the west coast theoretically," Clinton said.
"We're going to ring China with missile defense. We're going to put more of our fleet in the area," Clinton said in a 2013 speech. "So China, come on. You either control them or we're going to have to defend against them."
China is North Korea's economic lifeline and the closest thing it has to a diplomatic ally, and has been criticized by the U.S. and others for not doing enough to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Chinese officials and state media have responded by saying North Korea is not solely China's responsibility and say Beijing's has limited influence with secretive leader Kim Jong Un's hardline communist regime
Clinton also privately criticized China's position on another sensitive issue, the South China Sea. China claims almost the entirety of the strategically vital waterbody has lashed out at an international tribunal's rejection of its claims in a July ruling.
By China's logic, Clinton told a different audience in 2013, the U.S. after World War II could have labeled the Pacific Ocean the "American Sea."
"My counterpart sat up very straight and goes, 'Well, you can't do that,'" she said. "And I said, 'Well, we have as much right to claim that as you do. I mean, you claim (the South China Sea) based on pottery shards from, you know, some fishing vessel that ran aground in an atoll somewhere."
In another remark revealed in the Wikileaks hack, Clinton called Xi "a more sophisticated, more effective public leader" than his predecessor, Hu Jintao. She noted Xi's plans for economic and social reforms, but blamed what she called "a resurgence of nationalism" on the Chinese government.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond Friday to faxed questions about Clinton's remarks.
As secretary of state, Clinton visited China seven times and engineered Washington's "pivot" to Asia, which has long been viewed with suspicion by Beijing. The policy shift has seen a tighter focus on the region along with an increased military presence and fortified alliances with allies such as Australia and the Philippines, although the latter has been cast in doubt with the election of China-friendly President Rodrigo Duterte.
