This is seen by many as a battle for the soul of the digital frontier.

普遍认为这是一场数字前沿的灵魂之战。

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Since half a century ago, continued fights and quarrels led an unstable connection between these two countries. Frontier battle in 1962 and India's nuclear test in 1998 even made it worse.

半个多世纪以来，中印两国纷争不断，双边关系起伏不定，其中1962年的边界战争曾使两国关系一度陷入僵局，1998年印度的核试验也导致两国关系前景低迷。

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the battle took place over some land that was being contested on a frontier and they would go down to that area and pick a spot and there they would go and fight with one another.

战争爆发是为了争夺国境线上的争议地区,他们会到那个地区,挑好地方,然后在那里大打出手

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The former cattle rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been engaged in that battle for 25 years, longer than many of the young Internet users opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been old enough to sit at a keyboard.

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Over the last month, the authorities have turned up the heat on traffickers, closing frontier crossings and sending in troops and helicopter gunships to battle smugglers.

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