"Change and rupture are two different things," says Liu vis-à-vis the dispute. "If the Jews were expelled from Israel, for example, and all trace of them disappeared from that area, that would be a rupture. The development of Austronesians on Taiwan involves only change, not rupture.
「『變化跟斷裂』是兩回事，像猶太人被趕出以色列，從此在這塊土地上失去蹤影，就是『斷』，而南島系民族在台灣島上發展只有『變』而沒有『斷』。