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Why is Britain no longer considered a world power?

為什么英國不再被視為世界強(qiáng)國?

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Nikhil Naarayan
This is arguably not true.
Britain harnesses considerable soft power in the world. Almost every person on the planet can point to Britain on a map, name a good amount of British things, know about British culture, traditions etc. and all of this can be attributed to colonialism of the past.
Britain has a fairly decent “blue water” navy, compared to most other countries. Only comparable fleets are with the Americans, of course, and the Russians, the French and perhaps the Chinese.
Britain is an essential part of the NATO, along with the US, France and Germany. This fact is very difficult to argue against.
Britain is a nuclear state, has considerable knowledge and technology at its disposal in frontier fields of science like astronomy, quantum mechanics, bioengineering, genetic sciences, aviation, spaceflight, robotics, energy etc. In fact, if you notice carefully, you can find that a lot of key inventions and discoveries that power and drive our human civilization today were all clustered around the British Isles, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia.

這種說法是不對(duì)的。
1，英國在世界上擁有相當(dāng)大的軟實(shí)力。幾乎地球上的每個(gè)人都能在地圖上指出英國，說出很多英國的東西，了解英國的文化和傳統(tǒng)等。所有這一切都可以歸因于過去的殖民主義。
2，與其他大多數(shù)國家相比，英國擁有相當(dāng)不錯(cuò)的“藍(lán)水”海軍。當(dāng)然，只有美國、俄羅斯、法國，或許還有中國的艦隊(duì)可以與之媲美。
3，英國與美國、法國和德國一道，是北約的重要組成部分。這個(gè)事實(shí)很難反駁。
4，英國是一個(gè)核國家，在天文學(xué)、量子力學(xué)、生物工程、遺傳科學(xué)、航空航天、機(jī)器人、能源等前沿科學(xué)領(lǐng)域擁有豐富的知識(shí)和技術(shù)。事實(shí)上，如果你仔細(xì)觀察，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)許多推動(dòng)今天人類文明的關(guān)鍵發(fā)明和發(fā)現(xiàn)都集中在不列顛群島、法國、德國、意大利和斯堪的納維亞半島。

Not many countries would be capable of matching Britain in a one-on-one military battle today. It consistently features very high on global firepower and military rankings.
British people also excel in all kinds of sports and athletics as well, be it cricket, football, the Olympics and whatnot. You can rest assured, some Brit somewhere is winning awards and medals right now. They are thus, a world power in this aspect as well.
Socioeconomic factors? Political maturity and stability? Culture and tradition? Food? Influence? You name it, Britain has a foot deep in it. And it will continue to dominate for another century or so, in my opinion.
TLDR; Britain is certainly a highly dominant world power today. Of course, the world is growing hugely multi-polar and so, a lot of the previously hegemonic powers in the west seem to be losing out to what people now call the “rising powers” like China, Brazil , India etc., but I’m pretty sure that’s mostly just an illusion. They still retain a lot of their dominant positions and powers.

5，在今天的一對(duì)一軍事戰(zhàn)斗中，沒有多少國家能夠與英國匹敵。它在全球火力和軍事排名上一直名列前茅。
6，英國人也擅長(zhǎng)各種體育運(yùn)動(dòng)，比如板球、足球、奧運(yùn)會(huì)等等。你可以放心，某個(gè)英國人就正在某個(gè)地方贏得獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)和獎(jiǎng)牌。因此，他們?cè)谶@方面也是一個(gè)世界強(qiáng)國。
7，社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)？政治成熟度和穩(wěn)定?文化和傳統(tǒng)?食物?影響力?只要你說得出來，英國都涉獵頗深。在我看來，它將在未來一個(gè)世紀(jì)左右繼續(xù)占據(jù)主導(dǎo)地位。
今天的英國無疑仍是一個(gè)極具統(tǒng)治力的世界強(qiáng)國。當(dāng)然，世界正變得非常多極化，因此，許多以前的霸權(quán)國家似乎正在輸給現(xiàn)在人們所稱道的“新興大國”，如中國、巴西、印度等。但我很確定那只是個(gè)幻覺。他們?nèi)匀槐３种芏嘀鲗?dǎo)地位和權(quán)力。

Ray Howell
Who by? Britain has a nuclear arsenal borne by jets, missiles and nuclear submarines, with worldwide capability. Enough to give any nation a headache. Coupled with the world’s 5th largest economy, and the ability to project power around the world, both financial and with a superbly well trained military.
What was your nonentity of a question again?

誰說的？英國擁有由噴氣機(jī)、導(dǎo)彈和核潛艇承載的核武庫，具有世界性的核能力。足以讓任何國家頭疼。再加上世界第五大經(jīng)濟(jì)體，以及在世界各地投射力量的能力，還有金融和訓(xùn)練有素的軍隊(duì)。
你那無關(guān)緊要的問題是什么來著?

Dagfinn Aksnes
In recent times Britain is the only world power that has executed a war successfully by winning a very decisive victory over the Argentine aggressor in the Falklands, at the other side of the world, using appropriate force and top quality military personnel. Britain did this rapidly, alone and in a very professional and convincing manner.
The US and Russia/Soviet have both presided over serial military and political failures in the same time frx. Afghanistan and Viet Nam amongst others.
This speaks volumes about the position of Britain as a world power.
In addition Britain historically and currently is the number 1 world projector of soft power, again the US and Russia fail miserably also in this field.
These kind of loaded and misguided questions are just examples of the kind of trolling which unfortunately is rife on Quora.

近年來，英國是唯一一個(gè)成功地發(fā)動(dòng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的世界大國，它使用適當(dāng)?shù)奈淞透咚刭|(zhì)的軍事人員，在世界另一端的?？颂m群島對(duì)阿根廷侵略者取得了非常決定性的勝利。英國以一種非常專業(yè)和令人信服的方式迅速、獨(dú)立地做到了這一點(diǎn)。美國和俄羅斯/蘇聯(lián)在同一時(shí)期都經(jīng)歷了一系列的軍事和政治失敗。如阿富汗和越南。此外，英國歷史上和現(xiàn)在都是世界上最大的軟實(shí)力投射者，美國和俄羅斯在這個(gè)領(lǐng)域也慘敗。不幸的是，這些誤導(dǎo)的問題正是Quora上普遍存在的惡意攻擊的例子。
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Leslie Dellow
We may have two ruddy great aircraft carriers, but we have a small navy. We may have the fifth largest economy in the world, but it still only represents 2.5% of global GDP. By way of contrast, the USA represents 25.8% of global GDP, China 18.2% and the EU 16.4%. 2.5% doesn’t really put us in the big league.

我們也許有兩艘航母，但我們的海軍規(guī)模很小。我們也許是世界第五大經(jīng)濟(jì)體，但只占全球GDP的2.5%。相比之下，美國占全球GDP的25.8%，中國占18.2%，歐盟占16.4%。2.5%并不能讓我們真正進(jìn)入大聯(lián)盟。

Bob
Depends on the criteria used.
The UK is in the top six of world economies based on GDP
The UK is in the top five militarily -and is second only to the USA in ability to project that power globally
The UK occupies one of the five permanent seats on the UN Security Council.
The UK is definitely not the super power it once was but. - based on the above - is still a major world power and still exerts much greater influence, internationally, than all but a handful of other nations.

這取決于所使用的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
按GDP計(jì)算，英國在世界經(jīng)濟(jì)中排名前六。英國在軍事上排名前五，在全球投射這種力量的能力上僅次于美國。英國是聯(lián)合國安理會(huì)五個(gè)常任理事國之一。英國絕對(duì)不是曾經(jīng)的超級(jí)大國了。但基于以上，英國仍然是一個(gè)世界大國，在國際上仍然發(fā)揮著比其他國家大得多的影響力。

Matthew Barrett
You have to stop asking ‘When did you stop beating your wife?’ questions. The UK may not have an empire any more (Probably a good thing) but the UK can clearly project military power across the globe when it has to; ask the Argentinians. They couldn’t hold onto a few small islands a couple of hundred miles off their coast against a force that had to come from thousands of miles away across open water.
The UK is still economically top ten, aims to be top ten in virtually every socio-economic area (education, health care, welfare etc) and is viewed as a an equal partner in the G7.
I don’t know what your definition of ‘world power’ is, but by most counties’ estimation, the UK is clearly still ‘Premier League’

你不能再問“你什么時(shí)候停止打你老婆的?”的問題。英國可能不再擁有一個(gè)帝國(可能是一件好事)，但在必要時(shí)，英國顯然可以在全球投射軍事力量;問問阿根廷人。他們無法守住離海岸幾百英里的幾個(gè)小島，抵擋來自數(shù)千英里外開闊水域的力量。英國在經(jīng)濟(jì)上仍然排在前十，目標(biāo)是在幾乎每個(gè)社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)領(lǐng)域(教育、醫(yī)療、福利等)都排在前十，并被視為七國集團(tuán)的平等伙伴。我不知道你對(duì)“世界強(qiáng)國”的定義是什么，但根據(jù)大多數(shù)國家的估計(jì)，英國顯然仍然是“英超”。

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Britain like all developed nations is in relative decline as poorer nations develop
There was a time in the early fifties when half of global car exports were from Britain .
There was a time in the nineteenth century when the British economy was larger that India or China .
It is now smaller but still responsible for about 5% of world trade, quite a lot of investment and banking industry, quite a few patents and significant research papers and a large amount of defence spending - same level as Germany , France, Russia or Saudi Arabia .
it retains a security council seat as it remains a diplomatic and military force in the world however the reality is that there are better candidates for that seat , maybe India , Japan, Germany, Brazil .
The Uk is useful sitting there because it follows the usa .

英國像所有發(fā)達(dá)國家一樣，隨著較貧窮國家的發(fā)展而相對(duì)衰落。在五十年代初期，全球汽車出口的一半來自英國。19世紀(jì)有一段時(shí)間，英國的經(jīng)濟(jì)規(guī)模比印度或中國還要大。它現(xiàn)在經(jīng)濟(jì)規(guī)模雖然小了一些，但仍占世界貿(mào)易的5%左右，投資和銀行業(yè)的份額相當(dāng)大，有相當(dāng)多的專利和重要的研究論文，以及大量的國防開支——與德國、法國、俄羅斯或沙特阿拉伯的水平相當(dāng)。
它仍保有安理會(huì)席位，因?yàn)樗匀皇鞘澜缟系耐饨缓蛙娛铝α?，但現(xiàn)實(shí)是，這個(gè)席位有更好的候選人，可能是印度、日本、德國、巴西。