Judging whether economic interdependence produces power requires looking at the balance of asymmetries, not just at one side of the equation. In this case, interdependence has created a “balance of financial terror” analogous to the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union never used their potential to destroy each other in a nuclear exchange.
判断经济上的相互依赖是否会产生生产力，这需要着眼于不对称的平衡，而不能仅仅只看方程式的一端。在本例中，相互依赖创造了一种“金融恐怖平衡”，可以类比冷战期间的美国和苏联，两国当时从未运用自身的核实力在核战争中摧毁对方。