"Without the competition, maybe we'd be satisfied with the status quo, and willing to be ordinary," says Xu.

“没有竞争，或许我们更愿意安于现状，心甘情愿地做一个普通人，”徐乐说。

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It is followed by an analysis of the status quo of international competition of standards and three cases that confirm the front result of the analysis.

接下来分析了国际标准竞争的现状，并辅以三个案例印证前面的分析结果。

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But competition is already threatening the status quo.

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Different as these countries are in many ways, in all three, few bosses welcome the competition and deregulation that threatens the status quo.

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"As universities are facing severe economic conditions and ferocious global competition it is clear that the status quo is not viable, " she said.

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