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Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.
纽约—有两种外交政策：一种基于“拳头就是真理”的原则，一种基于国际法治。美国希望兼而行之：让其他国家受国际法约束，自己则否。没有比核武器问题更能体现这一点的了。
美国的方针注定要失败。耶稣说：“凡拿刀的，必死在刀下。”现在倒不是要死，而是要让所有国家，包括美国和其他拥核国家在内，受核不扩散的国际法的问责。
美国要求朝鲜遵守核不扩散条约（NPT）规定，在此基础上，美国鼓动联合国安理会对朝鲜实施制裁，以此推动去核化。类似对，以色列要求对伊朗采取制裁甚至宣战，以此阻止其违反NPT，发展核武器。但美国公然违反NPT，而以色列更是有过之而无不及：它拒绝签署NPT，以各种借口宣布自己有权利拥有大规模核武器，但至今仍拒绝承认这一点。
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