But such is the likely degradation of Britain's military capabilities that its willingness to fight alongside America may no longer be matched by the means to do so.

但英国这样愿意同美国并肩作战的军事能力的可能降级或许用这些方式这么做的话已不再相称。

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The Venezuelan capital is regularly listed as one of the most dangerous in Latin America. But Fort Tiuna military base is considered to be one of the safest places in Caracas.

人们通常认为委内瑞拉首都是拉丁美洲最危险的城市之一，但认为该军事要塞是加拉加斯最安全的地方。

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A spokesman said America wanted to end the "on again, off again" pattern of Sino-American military relations.

美军方发言人称美国希望结束中美军方关系“分分合合”的模式。

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Defense analyst Talat Masood says the drone operations are potent symbols of what many Pakistanis believe is America's over-reliance on military power.

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The vast majority of market control, 97%, has been ceded to China, a top economic and military competitor of America.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

China is a long way from matching the military might of America, though it is modernising its navy and its air force, and is already an increasingly muscular regional power.

ECONOMIST: China��s party

Its platform is not unlike that of far-right Christian conservatives an insistence that America was founded as a Christian nation, a call for America's withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organisation, the military sealing of America's borders against illegal immigrants, the end of anti-gun laws, drug tests for people on welfare.

ECONOMIST: The Ku Klux Klan