NEW YORK – In the coming decades, nothing will matter more for global peace, prosperity, and governance than how the United States and China handle the ongoing shift in their relative power. In the long term, today’s other pressing challenges – including Russia’s relationship with the West and events in the tumultuous Middle East – will amount almost to sideshows by comparison.
纽约—在未来几十年中，美国和中国如何应对两国相对实力的不断变化将是影响全球和平、繁荣和治理的最重要的因素。从长期看，目前的其他紧迫挑战——包括俄罗斯与西方的关系以及动荡的中东的各种事件——相比之下只能等而下之。