但他们寻求主宰印度洋沿岸某些战略要点的举动却与发展经济的目标背道而驰，因为此举不但会导致与印度关系紧张，还牵动了亚洲其他势力和美国的神经。
Yet their pursuit of a dominant position on the strategic chokepoints in the Indian Ocean undermines these goals by raising tensions not only with India, but with Asia’s other powers and the US.