The petroleum resource of Southeast Asia Alliance is an oil and gas relatively rich region andits ability of refining is surplus.

东盟地区油气资源比较丰富，炼厂整体加工能力过剩。

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The exhaustion of the Western alliance has coincided with the growing buoyancy and assertiveness of Asia and Latin America.

与西方联盟的疲倦不堪对比鲜明的是，亚洲和拉丁美洲不断增长中的活力和自信。

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Japan was able to turn its back on Asia for most of the post-war period because of a strong security alliance with America that has now been going for 50 years.

战后的大部分时间里，日本之所以能对亚洲诸国的声讨置若罔闻，是因为它与美国结成强大的安全联盟，迄今已经维持了50年之久。

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"It is not getting weaker." Sidney Jones,a terrorism analyst with the International Crisis Group, says security experts are now learning of a growing alliance of militant groups in Southeast Asia.

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Professor Nye is co-author of the CSIS Armitage-Nye Report, officially entitled: The U.S.-Alliance, Anchoring Stability in Asia ( see this link).

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