America’s financial difficulties and foreign entanglements, together with China’s economic ascent, led many last year to envisage the emergence of a sort of global condominium between the two countries. The G-8 had morphed by necessity into the G-20, which, whenever it really mattered, would shed its zero: the United States and China would call the shots.
发自伦敦 —— 还记得 G-2 么？美国的内部财政困局和外部的种种麻烦事，再加上中国经济地位的提升，令许多人在去年不禁想象是否会出现某种中美两国共同统治世界的景象。 G-8 集团不可避免地扩大成了 G-20 集团，但在有必要的情况下会把“ 20 ”后面的“ 0 ”去掉：这一使命将交由中美两国来完成。