Unfortunately, this double standard sends a message that democratic empowerment in any society is possible only if it is in the interest of the great powers. No one has a greater interest in broad acceptance of this noxious idea – that promotion of human freedom is nothing more than a geopolitical tool – than the world’s largest, oldest, and most powerful autocracy, China.
不幸的是，这一双重标准向人们传达了一个信息：任何社会的民主制度只有在符合大国利益的时候才可能存在。那么对这一观点——对自由的推动只不过是一项地缘政治工具——的普遍承认对谁最有好处？答案就是世界上最庞大，最古老，也最强大的独裁国家——中国。