CANBERRA – With the world producing more history than most of us can consume right now, it is easy to lose sight of recent developments that could have even greater consequences for long-term peace and stability than recent alarming events in eastern Ukraine, Gaza, and Syria-Iraq. The outcome of the nuclear negotiations with Iran, the change of leadership in India and Indonesia – two of the world’s three largest democracies – and the re-energizing of the BRICS group of major non-Western states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) may all be such game-changers.
堪培拉—世界产生的历史太多，我们消费历史的能力太小，因此，我们很容易忽视一些近期局势发展，它们给长期和平与稳定带来的后果可能比最近在东乌克兰、加沙和叙利亚-伊拉克所发生的紧急事件更加严重。与伊朗的核谈判的结果、三大民主国家之二——印度和印尼领导人交接，以及由主要非西方国家组成金砖国家集团（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）重装上阵都有可能成为这类局面改变事件。