Professor Roderich Ptak, head of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Germany's Munich University and a long-time observer of cross-strait relations, conjectures, "Perhaps China thinks the time has come to unify the Chinese-speaking world in script as well as in other respects.
一向關注兩岸情勢發展的德國慕尼黑大學東亞研究所所長譚克教授推測：「說不定中國認為華文世界『車同軌，書同文』的時機到了，以此作為試探和宣示。」