The "hard stuff" - military clout - is certainly central.

“硬东西”-军事影响力-当然是中央。

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Restoring top-level ties would also help reassure the neighbours that they have nothing to fear from China's growing economic and military clout.

恢复中日高层接触，可使邻国对中国的经济与军事实力扩充减少戒备。

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In the cold war Western strategists probably spent too much time worrying about the Soviet Union's military clout, and not enough analysing its commercial frailties.

冷战期间，西方的战略家们可能花费过多的时间担心苏联军事力量，而没有用充足的时间来分析他的商业缺陷。

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The Pushtuns have numbers on their side but, the king apart, no widely accepted leader and little military clout.

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For the fact is that the Europeans are still a long way from building up a military clout that could even remotely match (never say rival) that of the United States.

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Although Britain is normally seen as an awkward customer in EU affairs, resisting deeper political integration, it has traditionally been rather open to European countries pooling their diplomatic and military clout on a case-by-case basis, to gain global influence.

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