A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

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While America was preoccupied with Afghanistan, and later Iraq, China took advantage of Washington's new focus to minimise tension with the superpower and enhance its standing and its influence with its Asian neighbours.

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He said long-term relations with the superpower must be maintained.

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It would also highlight the fact that a country that has remained silently "friendly" to the US can no longer sit on the fence, quietly benefiting from its arrangement with the superpower.

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