The Chinese view us as their main enemy and anything we do, no matter how right or wrong, is seen as an opportunity for them to weaken us.

中国将我们视为它的头号敌人。不管我们做什么，不管我们做得是对是错，对于中国来说都是一个削弱美国实力的好机会。

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Rather than believing the fiction that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend, " the Reagan administration advanced US interests by using their rivalry to weaken both.

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