Donald Trump’s stunning electoral defeat of Hillary Clinton marks a watershed not just for American politics, but for the entire world order. We appear to be entering a new age of populist nationalism, in which the dominant liberal order that has been constructed since the 1950s has come under attack from angry and energised democratic majorities. The risk of sliding into a world of competitive and equally angry nationalisms is huge, and if this happens it would mark as momentous a juncture as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
唐納•川普(Donald Trump)在選舉中意外擊敗希拉蕊•柯林頓(Hillary Clinton),不僅對美國政治而言標誌着一個分水嶺,對整個世界秩序也是如此。我們似乎正進入一個新的民粹民族主義時代。在這個時代,自上世紀50年代構建起的主導的自由秩序,受到了情緒激憤的民主多數的攻擊。世界陷入同樣憤怒的各種民族主義相互競爭的風險巨大。如果這種情況發生,它將標誌着一個與1989年柏林圍牆倒塌同樣重大的關頭。