“We've been able to weather some of these storms, but clearly there have been effects,” he said.

“我们已经具备了平息这些冲突的能力，但是显而易见的是我们要注意到采取措施会带来的影响，”他说。

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Natural disasters, there have been unscrupulous human deforestation, which led to the natural problems, such as soil erosion, desertification, dust storms, causing extensive damage.

自然灾祸，不时有肆无忌惮的人类砍伐森林，从而招致了自然的成绩，如水土流失，荒漠化，沙尘暴，形成少量毁坏。

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There have been fierce political storms over foreign ownership of U.S. assets.

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Fortunately, these storms did not occur in the dead of winter, or there may have been much greater life safety issues to deal with.

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