（翻译）While the global financial crisis continued to take a toll on societies and politics globally,2011 has been a year of relentless turmoil and chaos. What underlies these waves of turmoil is the labor pains of the birth of a new international order.
Economic growth was severely unbalanced in 2011.The European and U.S. debt crises have gravely delayed the recovery of the world economy. Though the United States raised its debt ceiling after heated debate to avoid default, the Standard&poor' s rating agency downgraded the credit rating of the United States for the first time.