"The CPC's official affirmation of its May Fourth roots goes back to Mao Ze-dong's nostalgia for his youth," says Ko Ching-ming, who even says that the outcome of the May Fourth student movement's attempts to "resist foreign aggression and excise the traitors within" was merely that they vented their anger on their own diplomatic representatives. Thus, he queries, how can their actions be regarded as exemplary?
「中共官方肯定它與五四的根源，是源於青年毛澤東的自我懷念」，柯慶明甚至認為，五四學生運動「外抗強權、內除國賊」的結果，只能把自己處理外交事務的代表打一頓出氣，能有什麼典範作用？