Northeast Asia, only second to the Middle east, has become another most important strategic region for America after the Cold War.

冷战后，东北亚地区是美国战略中仅次于中东的第二个极其重要的战略区域。

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Smith had traveled in the Middle East before the Second World War, and lived and taught in Lahore of pre-1947 India.

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He also traveled to the Middle East that year to report on the second anniversary of the war in Iraq.

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One possible diplomatic payback to Spain would be hosting a second Middle East Peace Conference, similar to the one it hosted after the first Gulf War in 1991.

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