Nationalist netizens in China's hyperactive blogosphere are more luridly anti-western than China's current rulers.

在中国活跃博客中民族主义民在反西方态度上远远比中国目前统治激进得多。

The president ruled his country by using an iron fist in a velvet glove.

总统统治国家风格是表面温柔，实质上采铁腕手段。

Russia's far east has always been the most strategically vulnerable part of Moscow's fissiparous imperium, in what is the world's biggest country.

在莫斯科对于这个界上最大国家千疮百孔统治权当中，俄罗斯远东地区历来都是战略上最脆弱一部分。

They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their establishment as an element of strength.

他们在那种天真想法上，竟会错误到想方法来加强自己统治力量，而不知道行只能大大削弱自己。