Ministers gathering this week in Ottawa face a challenge that elevates the adjective “daunting” to previously unexplored heights. They will attempt to restore a battered 70-year-old institution to its former role to help defuse an increasingly bitter struggle for economic supremacy by two of the world’s greatest trading powers. To attempt this mammoth task they will be armed with little more than persuasive diplomacy and the power of good ideas.
本周齊聚渥太華的各國部長面臨一個“嚴峻”程度已升至前所未有高度的挑戰。他們將嘗試讓一家遭重創的、有著70年歷史的機構恢復先前的角色,以幫助化解全球最大兩個貿易國為爭奪經濟霸主地位而展開的日益激烈的斗爭。他們能夠用于完成這項艱巨任務的武器,只有外交說服和好想法的力量。
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