Davos, which many in Asia consider to be a rich man's club dominated by “western thinking”, proved the perfect venue last year for Wen Jiabao, China's premier, to let off steam. After years of being lectured about the virtues of free markets and financial deregulation, Mr Wen turned the table on his hosts, lacerating the west for bringing the world to the brink of crisis with lax oversight, profligate fiscal policy and the “blind pursuit of profit”. Together with Vladimir Putin, Russia's then-buoyant prime minister, he used Davos to send a message about the crumbling state of the old order and the shift to something new.
被許多亞洲人視作一個由“西方思維”主導的富人俱樂部的達沃斯論壇，在去年卻成為中國總理溫家寶發揮的理想場所。在聽了有關自由市場和放松金融監管益處的說教多年之后，溫家寶反客為主，在那次論壇上，斥責西方國家監管松懈、財政政策揮霍無度和“盲目逐利”，把世界帶到了危機邊緣。他與當時心情愉快的俄羅斯總理弗拉基米爾?普京(Vladimir Putin)一起，利用達沃斯發出了一個信號：舊秩序正在瓦解，某種新的秩序正在形成。