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发帖数: 1279 | 1 https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/31/china-wants-a-rules-based-international
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But the distinction between the United States’ supposed commitment to a
system of rules and China’s alleged lack thereof is misleading in at least
three ways. First, it overlooks the United States’ own willingness to
ignore, evade, or rewrite the rules whenever they seem inconvenient. If we
are honest with ourselves, we have to acknowledge that Washington sometimes
thinks it is perfectly okay for might to make right and for winners to take
all. The collapse of the Soviet Union, when the United States took full
advantage of a weakened post-Soviet Russia, is a perfect example.
Second, as Harvard University’s Alastair Iain Johnston has shown, China
accepts and even defends many principles of the existing order, although of
course not all of them. That situation may change in the future, of course,
but even a vastly more powerful China would undoubtedly seek to retain
whatever features of the present order serve its interests.
Third, statements such as Blinken’s imply that abandoning today’s rules-
based order would leave us in a lawless, rule-free world of naked power
politics, unregulated by any norms or principles whatsoever. This is simply
not the case: Scholars of widely varying views understand that all
international orders—global, regional, liberal, realist, or whatever—
require a set of rules to manage the various interactions that inevitably
arise between different polities. |
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