美国人应该在自己的生活和中产阶级的愿望中感到安全,然后你才去对他们说:“我们将不得不在南中国海加强海上航道。”
(Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.')