Many Indians, for their part, see China's building of roads, ports and pipelines in friendly countries around the Indian Ocean as a "string of pearls" strategy designed to choke India.

然而从许多印度人的角度出发，他们把中国在印度洋周围的友好国家修建公路、港口和管道视作旨在遏制印度的“珍珠链”战略。

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In the wake of Sunday's waves, there have been calls to set up a system that would monitor the Indian Ocean for undersea quakes and alert the countries around its rim.

随着周日海啸的发生，已经有人呼吁建立监控印度洋海底地震并警示周边国家的警报系统。

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Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.

印度洋周边的数十个国家有上万人罹难。

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The day before Christmas, 2004, a terrible tsunami struck the coastline of Indian Ocean countries.

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For three decades after African countries threw off their colonial shackles, not a single one (bar the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius) peacefully ousted a government or president at the ballot box.

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