美国经济尚未从全球经济危机中完全复苏，美国政治也日益陷入功能失调，这给拥有精明外交和经济实力的中国带来了其所希望填补的全球实力真空 — — 起点就是亚洲。
With the US economy yet to recover fully from the global economic crisis, and American politics increasingly dysfunctional, there is a global power vacuum that China, with shrewd diplomacy and economic might, hopes to fill – beginning in Asia.