When meeting Giddens, President Chen declared that the scholar's ideas have not only influenced British politics, but were critical to his own election on a platform of a new middle path or third way.
陳水扁總統接見紀登斯時則表示，紀登斯提出的「新中間路線」、「第三條路」概念，不僅影響英國，更是他當選總統的重要關鍵。