China’s prolonged – and apparently contentious – leadership transition, punctuated by the purge of Bo Xilai, suggests that its leaders’ ability to continue to manage the country’s emergence as a great power is not entirely certain. That makes the absence of a widely accepted regional structure of peace all the more dangerous.
中国漫长——显然仍未完结——的领导权交接过程——被薄熙来事件打断——表明其领导人继续引导中国崛起为超级大国的能力并不板上钉钉。这使得能被广泛接受的亚洲地区和平结构的缺位变得尤其危险。