China’s strategic aspirations in the South China Sea, and its unwillingness to embrace a maritime code of conduct there, sit uncomfortably with its stated concern for sovereign boundaries and the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes. And every one of the nuclear-armed states has been guilty of “do as I say, not as I do” in insisting on non-proliferation while making no serious commitment to disarmament.
中国在南海的战略雄心，及其不愿用海洋法解决南海问题，都与其关注主权边界和和平解决领土争端的说法不符。每个有核国家都有“照我说的做，别照我做的做”的罪行，在坚持核不扩散的同时不愿许下严肃的核裁军承诺。