In 2012, China is on the verge of becoming the world’s largest economy and is by far the leading emerging power. Yet two simultaneous phenomena suggest that the West may have been buried prematurely by its own Cassandras and by Asian pundits who sometimes behave like “arrogant Westerners.”
当前中国是遥遥领先的新兴力量；到2012年，中国将成为世界上最强大的经济体。然而，两种同时发生的现象表明，西方国家可能已提前被西方预言家和行为举止有时貌似“傲慢的西方人”的亚洲学者所埋葬。