At first glance, this looks like a classic case of a large country bullying a small country into submission. As Thucydides put it in his history of the Peloponnesian War, “The strong do as they will and the weak suffer what they must.”
初看，这就像是一个大国让一个小国俯首称臣的经典案例。正如修西底斯在其伯罗奔尼撤战争史中所说：“强者为所欲为，弱者逆来顺受”。