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Unit Eleven International Affairs
Brief Introduction to the Unit:
The three articles in this unit are all important international affairs which have great bearings on the world as a whole. The three authors, as expert in IRs or international studies, will offer us their in-depth view on these issues, and thus help us understand what is below the surface.
Text A IF Bush Ruled the World
• Pre-class assignments
International Herald Tribune
2006 National Security Strategy statement of the .
Key Words & Expressions
Words
Incoherence
Cliché
Stereotype
Boilerplate
Deduce
Ultimate
Ruinous
Subsequently
Fanaticize
Manipulate
enjoin
Expressions
Balance of power
Hedge against
At one’s peril
Build up
Difficult Language Points
A few days earlier, Rice and President e W. Bush were in India on the same mission, making a ‘historic’ gesture that conferred on India a nuclear partnership with America and authorized it to keep its nuclear weapons.
confer on: bestow on, usually used in connection with honors, ., confer a medal on the hero; confer an honorary degree on her. Here it shows the arrogance of the .. Please note the sarcastic tone of the author here.
Text B Sino-US relations: the economic aspect
Pre-class assignments:
Important events in Sino-US relations
Trade status between China and the .
Key Words & Expressions
ponent
Primacy
upation
Curb
Massacre
Surge
Discrepancy
evoke
Expressions
Give priority to
Sort out
Accord to
Difficult Language Points
As China…, it shifted the focus of development of the low-tech industries to these provinces and assigned to the coastal provinces, which have already built up a reservoir of human, technical and financial resources since 1979 in view of the privileged position accorded to them, the task of developing the core of the medium and high-tech industries.
1) assign sb a task/ assign a task to sb: give sb a particular job or make them respo