For example, he says recently a mainland Chinese scholar admitted to him that Beijing also needed to rethink its position, and that in fact Taiwan independence would not be a substantial loss to mainland China. "I was very surprised to hear that," says Metzger. Although such views are still marginal in mainland China, they indicate that there may be growing pluralization within Chinese academia.
「例如就有中國學者跟我坦承，其實北京也必須反方向思考，台灣獨立對中國來說並不算失去任何實質的東西，這讓我十分驚訝，」墨子刻說，雖然這些意見在中國都還算是邊緣的少數，但也顯示多元意見已逐漸在中國學術界出現。