书中提到，美国应该采取的措施包括：与中国进行直接的经济对抗，包括制裁和边境控制——必要情况下，以军事行动作为支援。

Measures should include direct economic confrontation with China including sanctions and border controls – backed up, if necessary, by military action.

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对抗通货膨胀的斗争比对抗日益加深的经济衰退措施更具优先性。

The fight against inflation took priority over measures to combat the deepening recession.

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为了对抗经济低迷，增值税(一种消费税)税率在过去的13个月里都是15%，在2010年初，税率重回17.5%，消费者或许会感到受了打击。

Consumers may well have been discouraged when the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, was restored to 17.5% at the start of 2010 after 13 months at 15% to counter the downturn.

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