美國國務卿布林肯回答：“...(省略200字）在國際體系中，如果你不坐上餐桌(談判桌)，你就會出現在菜單(被選菜......)上（ And if you are not at table in the international system, you are going to be on the menu. 這句話很多人用過，來源待查). 因此，重新進行多邊接觸對我們來說，非常重要，而且我們已經做到了。 ”
Basically, it means that if you are not represented at the decision-making table, you are in a financially vulnerable position, you get left out, or, worse yet ...
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Ohio參議員.D. Vance 說美國資源太分散，不能同時打幾地區戰爭，所以選
護台灣，讓烏克蘭由歐洲護
The case Vance pressed in Munich is more consistent, and its premises — not isolationist but Asia-first, more concerned about the Taiwan Strait than the Donbas — have supplied the common ground for Republican critics of our Ukraine policy since early in the war. But consistency is not the same as correctness, and it’s worth looking for a moment at why this kind of argument makes Ukraine hawks so frustrated.
ROSS DOUTHAT
What It Means to Choose Between Ukraine and Taiwan
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