It was the PRC in particular, which had begun economic reform as early as 1978, that blocked the domino effect, thus becoming the world's most important socialist state in the post-Cold War era.
尤其是中國，早於一九七八年即開始實施經濟改革，實質上擋住了骨牌效應，成為冷戰結束後世界上最大的社會主義國家。