So are the Castro brothers, in the twilight of their lives, preparing to lead Cuba towards a mixed economy, similar to that of China?

卡斯特罗兄弟也是，在他们的人生的最后一段时光里，准备领导古巴走向混合经济，像中国那样？

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EVER since raul Castro took the REINS of power in Cuba in 2006, he has seemed to hint that he wants to reform the island's moribund centrally planned economy.

自从劳尔·卡斯特罗在2006年接过了古巴的控制权，他暗示他希望可以改变岛国缺乏活力的中央计划经济。

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It is a great white elephant, held back by the feeble condition of Cuba's economy.

ECONOMIST: Bad air from Cuba

Many of these policies were adopted in the mid-1990s after Cuba's economy contracted by a third following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its former patron and protector.

ECONOMIST: Fidel Castro steps down

More important, Mr Castro has comprehensively thumbed his nose at outsiders who thought that, while reluctantly opening chinks of free-marketry into Cuba's economy, he might also open chinks for free thought and free speech.

ECONOMIST: No. Cuba��s president is still a Stalinist dictator