let's think out loud about that other statement.

让我们仔细思考一下其他国家的情况
Think of other countries.

想想其他国家
In Spain, obviously Madrid,

在西班牙显然是马德里了
Madrid is the capital but Barcelona is terribly,

尽管马德里是首都但巴塞罗那也
terribly important,

相当重要
and was always a much more economically important city

巴塞罗那的经济地位要比
than the kind of command economy that was Madrid.

马德里这个所谓的经济中心更为重要
Or, if you think of Berlin,

或者想想柏林
you think of Germany,

想想德国的情况
a unified Germany or in the Federal Republic before German unification,

无论在统一的德国还是统一前的联邦德国
Berlin was terribly important.

柏林都是一个十分重要的城市
It is now again the capital but Berlin is balanced off

现在柏林尽管又成为首都但在某些方面