China may soon need to decide whether it can sit back and let the Kremlin whittle away the geo-strategic gains and enhanced security that came with the Soviet empire’s demise. After all, it is no coincidence that China’s quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth came after the Soviet threat on its border was eliminated.
这个问题不仅事关西方国家。中国或许很快就要做出决策，是否任由克里姆林逐步蚕食随苏维埃帝国灭亡而来的地缘战略利益和安全强化。毕竟，中国长达四分之一世纪的经济增长发生在边境上的苏联威胁消除之后并非巧合。