Here's how the initial phases of a confrontation would play out - this is actually Fred Bergsten's scenario, and I think he's right.

这就是一个对抗的世界的第一阶段是如何玩完儿的——这是Fred Bergsten的真实想法，我亦如是观。

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The formation of bad loans and their repayments are a confrontation course of the related interest sides around the right of using financial resources.

国有银行不良债权的形成与清理是有关利益方围绕金融资源支配权展开的利益冲突过程。

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Traveling from city to city for weeks on end barely making ends meet and living out of an automobile is as much a right of passage for an umpire as their first confrontation with a manager.

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Yet right from the start, his method of gaining and then maintaining control over Russia's domestic scene was brute confrontation, owing more to Leninist diktat than to the compromise and consensus-seeking of democratic politics.

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