毕竟，正是这些价值观让它们产生了分裂：蒂勒森承认，尽管即将到来的特朗普北京之旅肯定会吸引全球关注，但美国不能与不民主的中国产生与民主大国所能产生的那种关系。
It is those values, after all, that set them apart: as Tillerson recognized, while Trump’s upcoming visit to Beijing will undoubtedly draw much global attention, the US cannot have the kind of relationship with non-democratic China that it can have with a major democracy.