某些中国学者最近所描述的一个“底层动荡、中产阶级心灰意冷、权力阶层失控”的国家可能将对外冒险看作维持国内团结的最佳手段。
A country that is “unstable at the grass roots, dejected in the middle strata and out of control at the top,” as a group of Chinese scholars recently put it, may see adventurism abroad as the best means of maintaining unity at home.