And yet China will find it increasingly difficult to postpone stronger measures that would appease popular demands for fairness, including the establishment of an independent judiciary, which could prove to be no less an imperative than structural economic reforms. Likewise, the leaders must either accept much of the information revolution’s swamping of controls or engage in far more costly repression.
但中国将会发现，中止迎合公众对公正的要求的更强有力的措施将变得越来越困难，建立司法独立就是其中之一，这将是不亚于结构性经济改革的当务之急。类似地，领导人要么接受信息革命对控制力的颠覆，要么实施代价高昂的打压。