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Anyone still not clear about what gunboat diplomacy means only has to look at what the United States has done to Venezuela to gain enlightenment. It has abducted the president of the South American country and is implementing plans to rob it of its oil resources.

若有人仍不明白炮舰外交的含义，只需看看美国对委内瑞拉所作所为便能豁然开朗。它绑架了这个南美国家的总统，并正实施计划掠夺其石油资源。

If that is not enough, US President Donald Trump's remarks about Greenland, an autonomous island of Denmark, leave no room for equivocation.

若这还不够，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普对丹麦自治岛屿格陵兰的言论则毫不含糊。

In response to a question from the BBC on Friday, Trump said that the US needs to "own" Greenland to prevent Russia and China from doing so, and that the US will acquire it either "the easy way" or "the hard way". This follows a recent White House statement that the administration was considering buying the territory of fellow NATO member Denmark, but it would not rule out the option of annexing it by force.

针对英国广播公司周五的提问，特朗普表示美国需要“拥有”格陵兰岛，以阻止俄罗斯和中国这样做，并称美国将通过“和平方式”或“武力方式”获得该岛。此前白宫发表声明称，政府正在考虑购买北约盟国丹麦的领土，但不排除以武力吞并该岛的可能性。

By saying so, the US leadership has shown that it does not have a smattering of respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a sovereign country.

特朗普的此番言论表明，他们对主权国家的主权和领土完整连最起码的尊重都没有。

In a joint statement on Friday, Greenland's political parties rejected Trump's repeated threats to take control of the island, saying that its future must be decided by its people.

格陵兰各政党周五发表联合声明，驳斥特朗普一再威胁要控制该岛的言论，强调该岛的未来必须由其人民决定。

The joint statement issued by the leaders of various political parties in Greenland, stating that "Greenlanders do not want to become Americans", was a clear expression of the sentiment of the overwhelming majority of Greenland's population, who have consistently opposed the idea of becoming part of the US.

格陵兰各政党领导人发表的联合声明称“格陵兰人不愿成为美国人”，这充分表达了该国绝大多数民众的意愿——他们始终反对成为美国领土的想法。

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