尽管美国的某些行为令人厌烦，但是在促进将数以亿计的人口从极端贫困和政治迫害中解脱出来的进步价值观上，美国还是一马当先。
As irksome as some of America’s actions have been, particularly over the past eight years, America remains the world’s most critical champion of the progressive values that have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty and political repression.