This may prove toothless but its very creation by countries ultra-sensitive to external criticism is significant.

或许此举最终没有强制力，但对于外部批评极度敏感的国家迈出这一步有非常重要的意义。

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External criticism tests the genuineness of the source.

外部批判（审视）检验资料来源的真实性；

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While TV and Radio Marti have received praised for broadcasting news to people in Cuba, where the government jams foreign signals, TV Marti continues to face internal and external criticism.

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But external criticism can trigger a boost as people try to prove the outsiders wrong, it said.

BBC: Dart throwing while blind, no concerns there