中国人已经更清楚地认识到我们不是故意试图孤立他们，而是避免可能产生更广泛的溢出效应的远东冲突对我们来说意义重大。
The Chinese have come to realize more clearly that we were not deliberately attempting to isolate them, but that we had a stake in the avoidance of collisions in the Far East that could produce a wider spillover.