But the rise of India and China means that the time-tested posture of Western democracies toward emerging states to “do as we say, not as we do” will become less tenable. If the EU and the US want democratic India to act according to its stated moral values and not its vital national interests when these appear to conflict, they had better be prepared to do the same.
但是印度和中国的崛起意味着西方民主对新兴国家受到时间验证的姿态，即“按照我们说的去做，不要按照我们做的去做”，已经不再那么站得住脚了。如果欧盟和美国希望民主的印度在两者发生冲突时根据它所宣称的道德价值观而不是它的重大国家利益行事，它们最好自己也先这么做。