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Today updated 20:00 2017/07/11  卡塔尔威胁退出GCC；乌克兰削尖脑袋入北约

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi

Coming up：

--Qatar is threatening to quit the Gulf¹ Cooperation Council.

--The US has deployed² a battery of Patriot³ missiles in Lithuania to be used in NATO wargames.

--Shinzo Abe will reshuffle his cabinet amid worst levels of popular support.

For more on this, CRI' Suyi is now joined on the line by Dr. Yahia H. ZOUBIR, Professor of International Studies & International Management, Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School;Dr. Cui Hongjian , Head of European Studies Department, China Institute of International Studies;Dai Nian, Research associate at Duke Kunshan University, he graduated from Japan's Waseda University majoring in international relations, East Asia security studies, Japan post-war politics and foreign policy.

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1 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

2 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

3 patriot   

n.爱国者，爱国主义者

参考例句：

• He avowed himself a patriot.他自称自己是爱国者。
• He is a patriot who has won the admiration of the French already.他是一个已经赢得法国人敬仰的爱国者。