On top of these misguided policies, Japan was going through its own political turmoil and, through no fault of President Obama's, thus unavailable to help maintain the balance of power.

除了所有这些错误的政策，日本自身正处于政治动荡期，虽与奥巴马总统无关，但也无助于维持力量平衡的大局。

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Suddenly, it became almost impossible to criticize the legacy of the late president and this outburst of national emotions, after the disaster, changed the balance of power on the political scene."

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Tsai Ing-wen is changing the political balance of power and the nature of politics in Taiwan.

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But by around 1910, the balance of power had collapsed (as had the political balance of power in Europe, a not-unrelated development).

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It has, says Oskar Niedermayer, a political-science professor at Berlin's Free University, caused a one-time shift in Germany's political balance of power.

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