但是一味袒护这些企业也只不过是让那些不可避免的事件迟一点发生而已，因为它们被允许从经济中榨取稀缺资源的时间越长，与美国的军备竞赛就越难以承受 — — 而对中国共产党权威的挑战也会越大。
Yet protecting them may merely delay the inevitable, because the longer they are allowed to suck scarce resources out of the economy, the more unaffordable an arms race with the US will become – and the greater the challenge to the CPC’s authority will become.