老牌中国观察家沈大伟（David Shambough）最近警告说，以中共为领导的中国政治制度所面临的挑战可能将严重制约政府实施2013年所提出的宏大经济改革的能力。
Veteran China watcher David Shambaugh recently went so far as to warn that the challenges facing the political system, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), may be severely compromising the government’s ability to implement the package of ambitious economic reforms that it unveiled in 2013.