The United States was enjoying its “unipolar moment”;

美国一直在享受它的“单国时刻”；

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China's rise will inevitably bring the United States' unipolar moment to an end.

中国的崛起将会不可避免的给美国的单一时代画上句号。

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The "unipolar moment" created by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has passed.

1991年苏联解体导致美国独霸全球的“单级时代”已经过去。

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And the supposed unipolar moment, when America was left to bestride a single-superpower world?

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"With the rapid rise of other countries, the 'unipolar moment' is over, and 'Pax Americana' -- the era of American ascendancy in international politics that began in 1945 -- is fast winding down, " the report states.

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For its part America, enjoying merely the illusion of a unipolar moment in what is an increasingly multi-polar world, has interests in Asia not least of them steadying the now nuclear-tipped rivalry between India and Pakistan, and managing the rise of China where easier relations with India could help.

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