This year’s Munich Security Conference returned to the theme of great power conflict, which many thought had ended with the cold war almost three decades ago. Against a morbid backdrop of three aircraft — Russian, Turkish and Israeli — being downed over Syria, Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of this gathering of defence and security policymakers, said that “at no time since the collapse of the Soviet Union has the risk of armed conflict between major powers been as high as it is today”.
今年的慕尼黑安全会议(Munich Security Conference)重拾大国冲突主题,而很多人曾经以为这种冲突在近30年前就结束了。在3架飞机(俄罗斯、土耳其和以色列)在叙利亚上空被击落的可怕背景下,会议主席沃尔夫冈•伊申格尔(Wolfgang Ischinger)表示,“自苏联解体以来,大国之间发生武装冲突的风险从没有像现在这么高。”