If this forces America back towards what the international-relations scholar Joseph Nye calls “soft power and multilateral diplomacy,” it may well be a good thing. But such approaches are anathema to the US Republican Party, and to its Tea Party faction in particular, and they might unnerve the many Asians who are nervous at China’s growing military might.
如果美国能因此被迫退回到国际关系学者约瑟夫·奈所谓的“软实力和多边外交”时代，这很可能不失为一件好事。但这种处事方式在美国共和党，特别是其茶党派系看来无异于一种诅咒，他们可能让被中国日益增长的军事实力弄得紧张兮兮的众多亚洲人丧失勇气。