在下盘超越政府控制之外的跨国事务方面—包括从气候变化到流行疾病到跨国恐怖主义—实力的分配是混乱的，因而在这样的背景下提出美国的霸权也是毫无意义的。
And, on the bottom board of transnational issues outside the control of governments – including everything from climate change to pandemics to transnational terrorism – power is chaotically distributed, and it makes no sense at all to claim American hegemony.