Russia and China may no longer be communist, but they certainly are illiberal and definitely not democratic. Russia is poised somewhere between authoritarianism and totalitarianism; and, for all of China’s recent economic progress, the rising Asian power remains squarely in the same camp.
俄罗斯和中国也许不再是共产主义国家，但它们显然是不自由的国家，也绝对是不民主的国家。俄罗斯位于威权（authoritarianism）和极权（totalitarianism）之间，而尽管中国的经济取得了长足进步，但这个崛起的亚洲列强依旧显然与俄罗斯处于同一阵营。