History will look back on 2012 as the year when China anointed its “fifth generation” of leaders and shifted to a slower growth trajectory, writes Yukon Huang. This transition will take place against a backdrop of daunting internal challenges – increasing social unrest, widening income disparities and both ecological and man-made disasters – and of escalating external tensions, stemming from America’s “pivot” to Asia and simmering regional worries about China’s economic rise.
歷史會這樣回首2012年:這一年,中國“第五代”領(lǐng)導層亮相,同時中國經(jīng)濟轉(zhuǎn)向較低速增長的軌道。這種轉(zhuǎn)變發(fā)生的背景,將是一系列令人畏懼的國內(nèi)挑戰(zhàn)——不斷增加的社會不安定,不斷擴大的收入差距,以及生態(tài)和人為的災難——加上不斷升級的外部緊張,這源于美國重新轉(zhuǎn)向亞洲,同時亞太鄰國對中國的經(jīng)濟崛起越來越感到憂慮。