英国内阁办公室前部长：中国应该关心脱欧吗？(23)_英国内阁办公室前部长奥立弗．莱特文：

I have the dreadful feeling that it‘s like the period at the beginning of the twentieth century， when Germany was on the rise and Britain， which was the dominant world power at the time， was very reluctant to allow Germany to express the power that it had economically．

And there‘s another uncomfortable parallel， which is that both the Germans and the British in 1900s， were failing to notice that the United States has become actually the biggest economy in the world while they weren’t looking．

Very similar positions．

If you think of what is today， the United States as Britain， the dominant world power， still， just， if you think of Germany in 1900s as equivalent to china， becoming the other dominant power． And if you think of， what was then the United States creeping up behind without anybody noticing as India， you have a very close parallel between 1900 and 2019．