Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
此后不久，国防开支的削减迫使航空航天业紧缩开支。
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But with a military budget almost as big as the rest of the world's combined, even quite small changes in American defence spending have big consequences for the industry.
On 8 September, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold a preview entitled "Middle East: a vast market for UK defence and security companies".
在9月8日，伦敦工商部立法部(London Chamber of Commerce and Industry)将主持一个叫做“中东：一个联合王国防御和安全公司的大市场”的展望会议。