Indeed, the Middle East’s deepening problems may impose a sense of restraint in Russia and China by forcing them to calculate not in terms of their global “nuisance value” vis-à-vis the West, but in terms of their ability to make a positive and stabilizing contribution to the world order.
确实，中东不断加剧的问题可能会迫使中俄两国不以其对西方的全球“微妙价值”，而是以其为世界秩序作出积极和稳定性贡献的能力来权衡而给这两个国家施加一种限制的感觉。