In a normal peacetime situation, he thinks, the highest values should be personal freedom, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. These are all extremely important, and students should not drop everything and study only China just because 1997 is coming.
在沒有戰事的正常環境下，個人的價值是最高的，保障個人的自由、人權、民主、法治，都很重要，不能等九七來了就只念中國。