他们大多是国际关系专家，从经济竞争力角度检视地缘政治，将全球秩序想象为一个跷跷板，一方的崛起必然意味着另一方的衰落。
Most are international-relations experts who, viewing geopolitics through the lens of economic competitiveness, imagine the global order as a seesaw, in which one player’s rise necessarily implies another’s fall.