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Press release: Remarks by the President at the United States Military Academy Commencement Ceremony. White House, May 28, 2014.
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-off ... mmencement-ceremony
all the pertinent parts about China:
" Russia’s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors.
"Regional aggression that goes unchecked -- whether in southern Ukraine or the South China Sea, or anywhere else in the world -- will ultimately impact our allies and could draw in our military. We can’t ignore what happens beyond our boundaries.
"You see, American influence is always stronger when we lead by example. We can’t exempt ourselves from the rules that apply to everybody else. We can’t call on others to make commitments to combat climate change if a whole lot of our political leaders deny that it’s taking place. We can’t try to resolve problems in the South China Sea when we have refused to make sure that the Law of the Sea Convention is ratified by our United States Senate, despite the fact that our top military leaders say the treaty advances our national security. That’s not leadership; that’s retreat. That’s not strength; that’s weakness. It would be utterly foreign to leaders like Roosevelt and Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy.
My comment: Translating "aggression" in quotation 2 as 侵略 is a bit of hyperbole.
奥巴马：美国准备好应对中国'侵略.' BBC Chinese, May 28, 2014.
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/worl ... obama_warning.shtml |
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