What is trendy at Davos this year is to view the crisis as reflecting two deep global trends – for example, the declining clout of the United States. After the war in Iraq and the Bush administration’s slow reaction to Hurricane Katrina, America’s subprime mortgage crisis is perceived by many as simply accelerating the irresistible rise of Asia and the shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world, even if the wider financial crisis will equally affect Asia’s growth.
今年的达沃斯流行的是把这场危机看成是反映了两个深刻的全球趋势，比如，美国影响力的衰退。在伊拉克战争以及布什政府在卡特林娜飓风后缓慢的反应后，美国的次贷危机被许多人看成不过是加速了亚洲的地位不可抗拒的上升以及世界从单极转向多极化的趋势，即便更大范围的金融危机也会影响亚洲的增长。