The "eastern question" is a significant issue in the modern history of international relations.

“东方问题”是近代国际关系史中的一个重大问题。

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What brought Europe to war was not the great alliance blocks, nor the Europe-wide arms race (one aspect of the story that is curiously neglected here), but the last gasp of the old Eastern Question, which had plagued European diplomacy for a century.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century history

The prints in question were made in eastern North America, a part of the world then full of rift valleys similar to those in East Africa today.

ECONOMIST: The rise of the dinosaurs

One issue that received considerable attention throughout the day involved the question of whether events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe had eliminated or substantially altered the requirement for an effective U.S. nuclear deterrent.

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