It provided Asia with a new backstop financing facility — in essence, a self-insurance fund that came in very handy in successfully cushioning the blows of an unprecedented global shock.

这给亚洲提动了一个新的金融保障设施——从本质上讲，是一种可成功缓冲前所未有的全球危机打击的很便捷的自我保障基金。

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At one point, it would appear, they decided a Syrian nuclear capability would be handy too, but Israel put paid to that in 2007 with an air raid against the suspected secret atomic research facility.

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