The flickering black and white films of men going “over the top” in the first world war seem impossibly distant. Yet the idea that the great powers of today could never again stumble into a war, as they did in 1914, is far too complacent. The rising tensions between China, Japan and the US have echoes of the terrible conflict that broke out, almost a century ago.
明滅閃爍的黑白電影中刻畫第一次世界大戰(zhàn)中男人們“躍出戰(zhàn)壕”迎敵的場景似乎久遠(yuǎn)得不可想象。然而,如果你認(rèn)為當(dāng)今世界強國再也不會像1914年一樣卷入戰(zhàn)爭,那就太自以為是了。中國、日本和美國之間持續(xù)升溫的緊張局勢與近一個世紀(jì)前那場可怕的沖突有相似之處。
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