TOKYO – Despite the relentless shift of global economic might to Asia, and China’s rise as a great power – the central historical events of our time, which will drive world affairs for the foreseeable future – America’s focus has been elsewhere. The terrorist attacks of 2001, followed by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the Great Contraction of 2008, the Arab Spring, and Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, all diverted the United States from helping to create a lasting structure of peace to accommodate today’s resurgent Asia.
发自东京——无论是全球经济向亚洲倾斜的不断倾斜，还是中国作为一个超级大国的日益崛起——这可是我们时代的核心历史事件，将带领全球事务走向可见的未来——都没能吸引美国的目光。2001年的恐怖袭击与紧随其后的阿富汗和伊拉克战争，2008年的大萧条，“阿拉伯之春”以及欧洲主权债务危机等一系列问题使得美国无暇他顾，无法协助复兴中的亚洲构建一个长久区域和平架构。