Delegates from nearly 200 nations gather in the Danish capital Copenhagen in December to try to agree on the shape of a post-2012 emissions trading system.

今年12月大约200多个国家的代表将齐聚丹麦首都哥本哈根，讨论2012年以后的减排交易体制。

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That includes our military might, economic competitiveness, moral leadership, global engagement, and efforts to shape an international system that serves the mutual interests of nations and peoples.

这包括我们的军事实力，经济竞争力，道德领导，全球参与，并努力塑造服务国家和人民的共同利益的国际体系。

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Since the end of the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, ultimate power has resided with the United Nations and European community, in the shape of an envoy known as the High Representative.

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Equally though it should be apparent that the world is less stable than it was, say at the time of that 1977 fleet review, and that the ability of the UK or the Western family of nations more widely, to shape world events is sharply diminished.

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Nearly half of all growth outside the U.S. over the next five years is expected to come from Asia, and the choices that nations across the region make now will shape the character of the entire global system for years to come.

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