A hair-trigger situation has been created which could lead to an outbreak of war at any time.

局势风云突变，战争一触即发。

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It has been shown by history that on the Middle Eastissue, biased and short-sighted mediation would only escalate tension, harm mutual trust, trigger confrontation and lead to endless troubles.

历史表明，在中东问题上，任何偏袒和短视的调解行动只会加剧矛盾，有害互信，引发对抗，后患无穷。

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Therefore, these terms are introduced here as questions to trigger the discussion that will lead your organization to define these terms for itself.

因此，这里以提问形式引入了这些术语，以便激起讨论，引导您的组织为自身定义这些术语。

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