0630: Note for Espresso

Asian security: where there’s fire, there’s Ash

引用: The Economist Espresso

複雜 + 微妙    >   fire  X  Ash

救火，隊長。

Problem solver

                 Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

                          BY ROBERT FROST

About Shangri-La

[ 理想國 X 東方 X 神秘 ]

paronomasia

Check out my figures.

                              「嗯.. 身材很棒。」

東邊日出西邊雨，道是無晴卻有晴

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The Sacrifice For Greatness

Kobe Bryant

こころざしあるものはことついになる

〔後漢書〕

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America’s secretary of defence, Ash Carter, will visit Vietnam and India this week, boosting military ties with both, and, in the process, doubtless reinforcing China’s suspicion that the United States is out to contain it.

他，來幹嘛?

有啥，目的?

兩個。推動，軍事合作關係， 以及 ___ 。

containment policy:  遏制政策 

NSC-68

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Air Defense Identification Zone ( ADIZ )

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語氣    

doubtless:  毫無疑問

At both stops, Mr Carter is to sign co-operation agreements. 

Behind the military rapprochement with both Vietnam, a former enemy, and India, once reliant on the former Soviet Union for its most advanced weaponry, is the fear inspired by the rise of China.

越南, 美國之前的敵人

印度, 依賴前蘇聯

That anxiety clouded this weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, an annual forum for Asia-Pacific defence ministers, attended by Mr Carter.

Discussions were dominated by China’s building spree around disputed reefs and rocks in the South China Sea, which is turning them into disputed man-made islands. 

爭點，在哪?

Mr Carter and others demanded an “immediate and lasting halt” to this. 

                                                             US to China: Stop it now

立即停止，永遠停止。

China insisted it is within its rights, and blamed America for stirring up trouble.​

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