For example, before Bill Clinton visited China in 1998, scholars such as Harvard professor Joseph Nye and former assistant secretary of defense Charles Freeman paved his way by writing articles for major scholarly publications in which they expressed the idea that Taiwan independence would be a major threat to American interests.
柯林頓總統九八年訪問大陸發表「新三不」言論前，哈佛教授奈伊、前助理國防部長傅立民等學者就紛紛在重要學術期刊上發表「台獨是美國利益重大威脅」的觀點，以為柯林頓大陸之行暖身。