I worry that this may make our cross-straits relations suffer.

我担心这会破坏海峡两岸的关系。

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"My worry is there is another family that is going to suffer the loss that I did because their son didn't have the proper training, the proper armament, the proper munitions to do his job, " he later tells me.

BBC: Sequester: When budget cuts are a matter of life and death