Despite its professed strategic pivot toward Asia, US President Barack Obama’s administration has done little to address China’s increasingly assertive efforts to stake its territorial claims in the South and East China Seas or North Korea’s affronts to the status quo on the Korean Peninsula. Add to that America’s weak response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and it is no wonder that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have dismissed its peace overtures.
问题并不仅限于中东。尽管对外宣称战略支点向亚洲转移，奥巴马总统政府并未采取多少行动来阻止中国越来越高调地宣称对东南中国海的领土要求或朝鲜对朝鲜半岛现状的公开挑战。再加上美国对俄罗斯吞并克里米亚的怯懦反应，以色列和巴勒斯坦领导人驳回美国的和平提案也就毫不奇怪。