In 2009, the GCC approved a massive railway project that would link all six member states.

2009 年，海合会批准了一项将所有六个成员国连接起来的大型铁路项目。

This year the GCC shifted its position and even suggested several changes that strengthened the treaty.

今年海湾合作理事会国家改变了立场，还为完善条约提出了一些更改的建议。

Now, around 2008-2009 oil prices plummeted amid the Great Recession and the GCC economies took a hit.

2008-2009 年左右，油价在大衰退中暴跌，海湾合作委员会经济体受到冲击。

Why was the GCC set up in the first place?

为什么首先要成立 GCC？

Together they make up the Gulf Cooperation Council, or the GCC.

他们共同组成了海湾合作委员会或海湾合作委员会。

So, informally, the GCC is like, the world’s biggest family affair.

因此，非正式地，海湾合作委员会就像是世界上最大的家庭事务。

Even with progress being made on the Etihad Rail network, the GCC Rail project as a whole hasn't always gone according to plan.

尽管阿提哈德铁路网络取得了进展，但整个海湾合作委员会铁路项目并不总是按计划进行。

The GCC, notably Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait, contributes around 30% of global oil production.

海湾合作委员会，尤其是沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋和科威特，贡献了全球约 30% 的石油产量。

Will it lead to the very notion of the GCC itself becoming obsolete?

它会导致 GCC 本身的概念变得过时吗？

When you talk about the GCC, it was really pretty much a sleepy kind of organization for several years.

当你谈论 GCC 时，它实际上是一个多年来一直处于昏昏欲睡状态的组织。

Will economic diversification mean that the development initiatives within the GCC, do they need to evolve?

经济多元化是否意味着海湾合作委员会内部的发展倡议需要发展？

In 2020, a report by the International Monetary Fund projected that the GCC’s financial wealth of $2 trillion could be depleted by 2034.

2020 年，国际货币基金组织的一份报告预测，到 2034 年，海合会 2 万亿美元的金融财富可能会耗尽。

But I’d like to know what’s next for the six monarchies in the GCC, and there’s no one better to unravel its influence than international correspondent Hadley Gamble.

但我想知道海湾合作委员会六个君主制国家的下一步是什么，没有人比国际记者哈德利·甘布尔（Hadley Gamble）更能解开它的影响力。

How have the GCC countries been affected since the oil price shocks, in 2014, 2015, and the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia in 2020, brought upon by the pandemic-induced slowdown?

自 2014 年、2015 年的油价震荡以及 2020 年沙特阿拉伯和俄罗斯之间的石油价格战以来，海合会国家受到了怎样的影响？

So for the GCC countries, if we’re thinking about whether or not they’ll continue within the GCC construct, I would say that, absolutely they will because they’re still going to have conflicts within GCC countries that they need to resolve.

因此，对于海湾合作委员会国家， 如果我们考虑他们是否会继续在海湾合作委员会架构内，我会说，他们绝对会，因为他们仍然会在海湾合作委员会国家内部发生冲突， 他们需要解决这些冲突。