Given a text T, and several options, according to the question posed in the text T to choose the most appropriate option from the options as the answer, please directly output the most appropriate option, do not need to output the explanation.

Which of the following statements regarding corporate shareholders is most accurate?
Option A:Cross-shareholdings help promote corporate mergers.
Option B:Dual-class structures are used to align economic ownership with control.
Option C:Affiliated shareholders can protect a company against hostile takeover bids.

Answer: C