Indeed, despite their geopolitical dissonance, the world’s most-powerful democracy and its most powerful autocracy have much in common when it comes to how they approach international law. For example, the precedent that the US set in a 1984 International Court of Justice (ICJ) case filed by Nicaragua still resonates in China, underscoring that might remains right in international relations.
事实上，尽管在地缘政治问题上分歧颇多，世界最大的民主国家和世界最大的独裁国家却在对待国际法的问题上有很多共同之处。比方说，由美国开创的尼加拉瓜国际法庭案先例在中国仍能引发共鸣，凸显强权依然是国际关系的正确规则。