CNN 2009-11-15

It's certainly apparent to everyone whether you are a citizen of Japan or you reside in China that the emerging superpower here in Asia is absolutely China. And so..that given of the reason why we‘ve  heard Prime Minister Hatoyama mentioned multiple times in advance of the president arriving here and then while the president was here that it's very important for Japan that the president stopped here first. President Obama in his speech just now said that the policy in the Asia-Pacific region is rooted in Japan. So  while there may be some concerns that Japan is in event being passed by China's economic power. What we were seeing from this new government led by Japan is…Uh, led by Prime Minister Hatoyama is that Japan needs to strengthen ties with China. If anything this past year in the spiraling down of Japan's economy, the world's second largest economy, because of the demand in the United States dropping for Japan's exports. It's apparent to this new government that there has to be more of the tie to China. Toyota just came out with the second quarter earnings¹ and in part those earnings were higher because of demand in China. So yes, Colly, there may be some concern about that but they're very pleased this government that the United States has decided² to stop here first before moving on. And something  else we should mention, Colly, is that this speech really is looking toward China, Singapore and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region. This is going to be received quite well by anyone who is listening to this from the Japan side because it does well respecting Japan's history with the United States, it does look forward to how to make this entire region stronger.
 

1 earnings   

n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得

参考例句：

• That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
• Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。