Through their huge purchases of goods, with promises of even more to come, today’s authoritarian/mercantilist regimes in Russia and China may be about to achieve by commerce what the Soviets could not achieve by bribery and threats. And the scale of that commerce is breathtaking, with German exports to China growing from $25.9 billion a decade ago to $87.6 billion in 2011, while South Korea’s exports have increased from $53 billion to $133 billion during the same period of time.
今天的俄罗斯和中国极权/重商主义政权大量购买商品，并承诺在未来还会继续加码，大有以商业手段完成苏联靠贿赂和威胁无法完成的任务。通商的规模令人咋舌，德国对华出口从十年前的259亿美元增长到2011年的876亿美元，而同期韩国出口从530亿美元增至1,330亿美元。