Practicing an early form of nonalignment, the new nation discovered the benefit of neutrality as a bargaining tool, just as many an emerging nation has since.

• 通过推行一种早期的不结盟政策，美国这个新兴国家尝到了中立作为一种讨价还价的工具的甜头，正如自此以后，许多崛起中的国家大多乐此不疲。