【Financial Times】The west is the author of its own weakness

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The west is the author of its own weakness

China presents a threat to the liberal global order but the bigger danger lies in the discrediting of democracy

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あ、いつも通り内容は全く理解できませんでした。FTへの道のりは長い！

unipolar
dub
order
in this respect
normative
swath

unipolar

意味　: having or oriented in respect to a single pole: such as
: based on or controlled by a single factor or view

Soviet communism had collapsed, the US claimed a unipolar moment, and China had joined the market economy.
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dub

意味　(報道)[～ A (as) C]A〈人· 物〉に C という名 [あだ名] を付ける, A を C と呼ぶ（しばしば受け身で） .

The UK would soon be dubbed “Cool Britannia”.
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order

意味　[C] （社会の）体制, 制度 (system)

You did not have to think the wheels of history had stopped turning to judge that the 21st century would be fashioned in the image of advancing democracy and a liberal economic order.
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in this respect

意味　[論説]この点に関して

Europe was no innocent in this respect.
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うぅ…こんな使い方知らないよ…やっぱいちいち難しいなFT。

normative

意味　(かたく)[通例[名]の前で]規範的な; 標準的な.

America had guns but the EU had its own “normative” power.
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かっこいい文だなー。「America had guns but〜」って汎用性高そうw

swath

意味　多数の人 [物].

Large swaths of the world were set to become, well, European.
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「細長い場所; 帯状のもの.」って意味もあるけど、ここでは違うよね…ああほんとに難しいけどたまに難しい記事読んで絶望するの好きw