如果其他国家在某种程度上需要依靠中国来维护贸易体系，那么它们也相对不太可能反对中国在南中国海以及其他地区的其他战略举措。
To the extent that other countries rely on China for preserving the trading system, they are correspondingly less likely to object to China’s other strategic initiatives, in the South China Sea and elsewhere.