Noting that the developers of Tongyong Pinyin describe their system as compatible with Hanyu Pinyin yet different from it, he adds with a slight note of derision, "It reminds me of Wu Sangui inviting the Manchus in through the Great Wall-they're getting themselves pinned in a corner and snuffing out all the other romanization systems in the process."
他略帶嘲諷的說，通用拼音號稱和漢語相容又有區隔，「我看，他是吳三桂引清兵入關，把自己困死，也把其他拼音系統打死了！」