貌似比预想要来得早了点:中国即将超过美国成为超级强权
B-52Bombers - frightening hulks of metal
B52轰炸机——一拿来吓人的钢铁大块头
Meanwhile the US, which stilloccupies Japan, has almost 50,000 troop stationed on Okinawa and elsewhere。Washington saw the necessity to remind all its semi-colonies and satellitestates in East and South Asia that it is still the world’s strongman。
这里就不得不提到另一个国家,美国。美国现在还占领着日本,在冲绳等地拥有将近5万驻军。如今发生了这种事,美国政府就觉得,要是再不出来露一手,好教他在东亚和南亚的半殖民地兼卫星国知道咱还是世界最强国家,那就说不过去了。
In the future, the mere mentionof any national defense airspace will encourage the US military to fly rightthrough it。 (We are seeing this with US drones in Pakistan and Iran。) And incase you haven’t seen one, these bombers are truly frightening hulks of metal。Japan still remembers the older B-29 model, two of which dropped atomic bombson Nagasaki and Hiroshima。
可以预见的是,未来任何有关防空领域的事件,不管多么鸡毛蒜皮,都会令美国有派飞机耀武扬威的冲动。(巴基斯坦和伊朗不就老有美国无人机出入吗)如果不派无人机了,那更可怕的玩意——轰炸机就要来了。日本到现在估计还记得老式的B29,当年就是这种轰炸机在广岛和长崎丢下了两颗蛋蛋。
资料图:美军B52战略轰炸机
The story may even have thepotential to inspire a new internet meme: The US might want to dispatch unarmedbombers for Christmas over protests in Xinjiang or Tibet。
所以说,这件事哪天发展成网络上的一个梗也是不奇怪的:为了西Z和X疆的抗议而派飞机?算了吧,还是为了欢庆圣诞派飞机比较有价值。
Chinaversus the USA
中国VS美国
What does all this travesty ofpower mean? Most analysts agree that China is going to overtake the UnitedStates in terms of economic might this decade or the next。 That shift,commentators predict, is going to be very dramatic; it’s like losing your job,your status, your self-confidence。 Some worry that the US Empire is going downin Hollywood fashion, with a few more explosions here and there。
归根结底,这一切的闹剧都是为了什么?首先我们要明白一件事,根据当今大多数分析家的预测,中国会在十年左右的时间里取代美国成为全球经济老大。绝不能小看了这种变化——失业、失去地位和自信心也就是这样了。一些人甚至还认为,美帝国近年的电影总是各种爆炸,总的来看,好莱坞似乎也开始走下坡路了。