The West, too, has fallen into the trap of nostalgia, clinging to a late-twentieth-century conception of order in which it makes the rules and can choose whether to follow them. The latest example of this anachronistic perspective is America’s ham-fisted (not to mention failed) attempt to stem support for the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, after repeatedly refusing to provide a greater voice for the world’s emerging powers in the Bretton Woods institutions.
西方也同样落入到怀旧的陷阱。他们死抱住二十世纪末的秩序理念不放，固执地认定应由自己来制定规则并选择遵守与否。这种过时观点的最新例子是美国笨手笨脚（更不用说失败）地试图阻止国际社会支持由中国领导的亚洲基础设施投资银行，之前美国曾一再拒绝在布雷顿森林体系中给这个新兴全球大国更大的发言权力。