But, we see a China facing a strategic crossroads. Questions remain about the basic choices China's leaders will make as China's power and influence grow, particularly its military power.

但是，我们注意到中国正处于一个战略十字路口，存在的问题是中国的领导者们将如何对待他们的力量及正在增长的影响力，特别是他们的军事力量。

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Russia, which is the most important power in the region, has unique geo-superiority, and economic, military and other strategic interests in the region.

俄罗斯是北极地区最重要的世界大国，对北极地区拥有得天独厚的地缘优势，在北极有经济、军事、安全等诸多战略利益。

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In short, Russian leaders hope to control or eliminate many elements of U.S. military power in exchange for strategic force reductions they will have to make anyway.

WSJ: Arms Control Amnesia

America's pivot to the Pacific reflects a growing strategic concern over China's rise as a military power, amid simmering disputes over Taiwan and contested islands in the south and east China seas.

NPR: Military Weighs Cutbacks, Shifts In Drone Programs

The war would probably drag on, robbing President Thein Sein of the peaceful new start he is promising his country, entrenching the power of the military in this strategic border area, and unnerving China, which sees Kachin state as a vital trade and energy corridor.

BBC: Kachin rebels defiant on Burma's northern front line