But it is wrong – at least for now – to think that a formal structure of alliances to contain China is needed in the way that one was required to contain the Soviet Union. Containment, it should be recalled, was organized against a Soviet totalitarian regime that was not only ideologically aggressive and in the process of consolidating its colonization of Eastern Europe (as well as Japan’s Northern Territories), but also deliberately sealed off from the wider world economy.
但认为需要建立像遏制苏联那样的正式联盟结构来遏制中国是错误的，至少从目前来看这是一种错误的选择。 我们应该记得，对苏联集权主义政权的遏制不仅是因为苏联侵略性的意识形态及其在东欧（以及日本北方领土）巩固殖民统治的企图，还因为苏联故意封锁世界经济的险恶用心。