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I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

Manuel Puig

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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