现有大国和新兴大国之间存在着纵横交错的利益联系，紧密程度远胜过“西方对抗其他国家”说；事实上，崛起大国与西方国家之间的共同利益往往不亚于它们彼此之间。
There are far more overlapping interests between the established and the emerging powers than the “West versus the rest” narrative suggests; indeed, the rising powers often share as many interests with their Western counterparts as they do with each other.