There is a mood abroad that says history will record that sanctions against Russia marked the start of an epochal retreat from globalisation. I heard a high-ranking German official broach the thought the other day at the German Marshall Fund’s Stockholm China Forum. It was an interesting point, but it missed a bigger one. The sanctions are more symptom than cause. The rollback began long before Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.
目前國外有種態度認爲,歷史將會記錄,對俄羅斯的制裁標誌着全球化倒退的開始,具有劃時代意義。有一天我聽到一位德國高官在德國馬歇爾基金會(German Marshall Fund)的斯德哥爾摩中國論壇(Stockholm China forum)上談到這種想法。這是一個有意思的觀點,但它錯過了一個更加關鍵的問題。這些制裁只是症狀,而非原因。全球化倒退在俄羅斯總統弗拉迪米爾•普丁(Vladimir Putin)與烏克蘭開戰之前早就開始了。