Jeffery Wassertstrom a Historian professor at the University of California,Irvine, says China is trying to reclaim the powerful status it held hundreds of years ago.

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I mean, there is, within Israeli politics, there is a movement of various religiously motivated people who want to reclaim the land that forefathers lived on.

我的意思是，在以色列政治中，有一种运动会由不同宗教信仰的人组成,为国家找回领土。

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How much land do they reclaim from the sea?

他们通过围海造地扩大了多少面积呢

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