中文
如果一切仅仅是钱的问题，这些投资趋势就应该足以决定大局，让美国和中国都有充分的理由相互尊重对方的利益。但投资不能孤立于政治，而政治将局面复杂化了。这其中最明显的是国家安全问题。
我的译文
If it is all about money, the big picture should have been drawn by these investment trends, ensuring reasons for China and America to respect each other’s interests. However investment can not be isolate from politics, which is adding complication in the situation. The Exhibit A is national security.
经济学人原文
Were it just a question of money, these investment trends ought to be the clincher, giving America and China every reason to stay on each other’s good side. But investment cannot be divorced from power, and that poses complications. Most obvious are national-security concerns.
📌If 引导的虚拟状语从句中如有were／had／should，if省略后，从句要部分倒装。这种省略结构常出现在书面语中。
Were I you, I would go．
Were it to rain tomorrow, we would stay at home.
👉clincher
A clincher is a fact or argument that finally proves something, settles a dispute, or helps someone achieve a victory.[INFORMAL]〔促使某人行动或结束争论、讨论或比赛的〕决定性事实[行动，话语]
DNA fingerprinting has proved the clincher in many criminal and other forensic identifications...
The clincher was Haig's assurance that he could withstand any German attack for at least eighteen days.
👉divorced
1 Someone who is divorced from their former husband or wife has separated from them and is no longer legally married to them.
Princess Margaret is divorced from Lord Snowdon...
He is divorced, with a young son.
2 If you say that one thing is divorced from another, you mean that the two things are very different and separate from each other.
//...speculative theories divorced from political reality.
Syn:unconnected
3 If you say that someone is divorced froma situation, you mean that they act as if they are not affected by it in any way.
This just shows how divorced from reality she's become.
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