In a speech on Monday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, General Xu pledged "unremitting efforts" to build China's military relationship with the United States, because,he said,it is an important part of one of the most important bi-lateral relationships in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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