"However," warns Elizabeth Economy, "mainland China does not always maintain an open attitude toward think tanks functioning as track two." She says that when the political situation in mainland China is unstable, they want to minimize the amount of information the outside world receives, and at those times tend to have a closed attitude.
「然而中共對智庫二軌的態度卻是時開時關搖擺不定的，」易明也指出，當中國政情不穩定、不希望外界得到太多內部消息時，就會趨於保守。