Germany is casting around for a foreign policy. To say Angela Merkel’s government has embraced the task with unbridled enthusiasm would be an overstatement. Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall most Germans would still prefer to hide behind history. Selling cars and machine tools overseas is one thing; marking out an active role in a disordered world quite another. Russia’s march into Ukraine has robbed Ms Merkel of the choice.
德國正在摸索新的外交政策。如果說安格拉•梅克爾(Angela Merkel)政府正以極大熱情擁抱這一任務,那可能言過其實。在柏林圍牆倒塌25年之後,多數德國人仍然更願意躲在歷史背後。出口汽車和機牀是一回事,在秩序混亂的世界中扮演積極角色則是另一回事。俄羅斯插手烏克蘭的行爲令默克爾別無選擇。
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