Post-colonial regret, or guilt may play its part in a nation still coming to terms with having lost one quarter of the world.

后殖民时代的叹惋或内疚也起到一定作用，尽管这个国家仍未完全适应失去了四分之一世界的现实。

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The United Nations has never recognised Indonesian rule there, leaving East Timor as one of the unfinished items on the world's post-colonial agenda.

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