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.
德国正在摸索新的外交政策。如果说安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)政府正以极大热情拥抱这一任务,那可能言过其实。在柏林墙倒塌25年之后,多数德国人仍然更愿意躲在历史背后。出口汽车和机床是一回事,在秩序混乱的世界中扮演积极角色则是另一回事。俄罗斯插手乌克兰的行为令默克尔别无选择。
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