None of this is meant to minimize the consequences of political polarization in the US. But, whereas America’s problem in the world today is that domestic pressures sometimes lead to an excess of fortitude, China’s problem is that similarly constraining pressures produce foreign-policy weakness.
当然，上述这一切无法减轻美国政治极端化的所产生的后果。但当美国的外交问题是国内政治压力有时会导致过度强硬之时，中国的问题则是类似的压力使其在外交上优柔寡断。