Life is like a rushing river, no islands and reefs, it is difficult to create beautiful waves.

人生就像奔腾的江水，没有岛屿与暗礁，就难以激起美丽的浪花。

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Man's life, like torrential floods, not in islands and reefs, difficult to arouse beautiful spray.

人的生命，似洪水奔流，不遇着岛屿和暗礁，难以激起美丽的浪花。

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Human life, like the flood water, not in islands and reefs, it is difficult to arouse beautiful spray.

人的生命，似洪水奔流，不遇着岛屿和暗礁，难以激起美丽的浪花。

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Beijing is destabilizing its neighbors, supporting retrograde elements in Burma, implicitly threatening democratic India with its nuclear missile force, massing hundreds of missiles on the coast against Taiwan, and claiming and militarily occupying islands and reefs claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines in a bid to control the South China Sea.

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Of all the claimants to islands, reefs, rocks and waters there, the one with which the Philippines is in active dispute is China.

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This rugged, remote land was shaped by volcanoes and many of its low-lying islands are ringed by flawless beaches and protected by coral reefs.

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