However, "the views of foreign scholars are after all one step removed, and to understand Taiwan through the mainland will inevitably be biased," says Dr. Andrei V. Kouzmenko, who studies the Moscow-Peking-Washington relationship.
但是，「外國學者的看法，畢竟隔了一層；透過大陸也難免有偏差」，研究中共、美國與蘇聯三邊關係的庫茲明科說。