PARIS – We are little more than a decade into the twenty-first century, but a terrible precedent has already been set: all of the major international negotiations and cooperative efforts initiated in this century thus far have ended in failure.
巴黎——进入21世纪仅有十余年的时间，但是已经设定了一个可怕的先例：本世纪开始的所有主要国际合作谈判都难逃失败的厄运。