Though the slump of 2009 is a distant memory, monetary conditions are still extraordinarily loose, thanks, in many places, to efforts to hold down currencies (again, China leads in this respect).

虽然2009年的衰退已是遥远的记忆，但在许多地方，由于维持货币较低的币值（以中国为首），流动性情况仍旧十分宽松。

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And yet China is already the world's third largest economy and will become the second largest in the not-too-distant future. With that status comes a global responsibility.

尽管如此，中国已经是全世界第三大经济体，而且在不久的将来也会晋升世界第二位，这样的地位会带来更大的责任。

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Concerns about transborder radiation are reaching far beyond China, as people in countries as distant as Singapore and the Philippines struggle to understand the effects of nuclear disasters.

对辐射会跨越国界的担忧不仅来自中国，远在新加坡和菲律宾的人都试图了解核灾难的影响。

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Mexico's crucial competitive advantage in the United States over distant countries such as China is lower transport costs.

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Some day in the not-so-distant future, China will do the same thing.

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But in a third analysis of research in biology and medicine, though, China barely made a dent, with the United Kingdom coming in a distant second to the U.S.. SciVal says American researchers published 250, 000 scientific papers on biology or medicine, 29% of the global total, in 2009.

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