关于“中等强国”应在世界上发挥更积极作用的呼声日益高涨，这要求它们寻找能在关键领域开展合作的伙伴，印度外交部长表示。
The growing calls for “middle powers” to play a more active role in the world requires them to find partners who can cooperate in the areas that matter, India’s foreign minister said.
作为世界人口最多的国家，印度更倾向于使用“处于中间地位的强国”这一称法，外交部长苏杰生在彭博社赞助的一场新德里活动上说道。无论如何给它们贴标签，这些国家“需要更积极行动，需要彼此打更多交道，并想办法在它们感兴趣的问题上推动进展”，他说。
As the world’s most populous country, India prefers the term “powers in the middle,” External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told a Bloomberg sponsored event in Delhi. However they’re labeled, such countries “need to be more active, need to deal more with each other, and figure out a way of moving the needle on issues of interest to them,” he said.
今年早些时候，加拿大领导人马克·卡尼呼吁“中等强国”联合起来，应对美国主导的所谓基于规则的国际秩序的消亡。这引发了关于加拿大或英国等国家应如何应对唐纳德·特朗普总统领导下日益难以预测的超级大国的讨论。
Earlier this year Canada’s leader Mark Carney called for “middle powers” to band together to deal with the death of the so-called rules-based order led by the US. It sparked a discussion about how nations such as Canada or the UK should deal with an increasingly unpredictable superpower under President Donald Trump.
与会小组成员列举了若干这将呈现何种面貌的例子，包括更多国家加入区域贸易协定，如《全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（CPTPP），以及“自愿联盟”为乌克兰对抗俄罗斯提供支持。尽管如此，鲜有迹象显示冷战后安全秩序将出现全面替代方案。
Panelists raised several examples of what this would look like, including more countries joining regional trade pacts such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP, as well as the Coalition of the Willing offering support for Ukraine against Russia. Still, there are few signs of a comprehensive replacement for the post-Cold War security order.
苏杰生表示，依靠军事实力来保障这一秩序的做法已受到动摇，他指出一些冲突的结果与预期大相径庭。俄罗斯入侵乌克兰和美国袭击伊朗都是大国难以制服小国的例证。
The reliance on military might to guarantee that order has been shaken, Jaishankar said, pointing to conflicts whose outcomes were very different from what had been expected. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the US attack on Iran are both examples in which a larger country has struggled to subdue a smaller one.
据苏杰生称，全球秩序正因此而变化，他将其比作企业大重组。“董事会正在扩大，”他说。“关于名为‘地球’的这家公司将走向何方，股东们的讨论活跃得多”——即使结果可能显得杂乱无章。
The global order is changing as a result, according to Jaishankar, likening it to a corporate overhaul. “The board of directors is expanding,” he said. “There is a much more active shareholders discussion about where the company called Planet Earth is going” — even if the results might be untidy.
彭博社小组讨论的焦点是中等强度的作用，参会其他嘉宾就这些国家如何施加影响力展开了辩论。
Other participants in the Bloomberg panel, which focused on the role of middle powers, debated how such countries can exert leverage.
前英国首相里希·苏纳克表示，这可能包括寻找“成为咽喉要道”的方法。“寻找那些能够让自己对其他国家变得不可或缺的方法，”无论是在技术还是其他领域。
It could involve finding ways to “become a chokepoint,” former UK premier Rishi Sunak said. “Finding those ways that you can make yourself indispensable” to other countries, in technology or other areas.
加拿大外长阿尼塔·阿南德表示，所有国家都有其竞争优势，但她承诺加拿大不会将自身的优势武器化。
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said that all nations have their competitive advantages, but vowed that Canada won’t weaponize its own.