Bruce Elleman, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia University, who is writing a dissertation on modern Sino-Soviet relations, states that, "In fact Chinese studies were just used as a tool of struggle."
「說穿了當時只是利用中國研究做鬥爭的工具」，美國哥倫比亞大學博士候選人、以近代中蘇關係為論文主題的艾樸如也表示。歷史價值大於學術價值