According to Hong Kong's The Nineties magazine, Hsi Yang had both gone to school and worked in Beijing, and he only lived in Hong Kong for two years. Judging from his background, he should have well understood mainland China's policies. Such a reaction from Beijing was meant to give a lesson to "traitors."
香港「九十年代」雜誌分析，從席揚的背景來看，他在北京受教育和工作，居港才兩年，對中共政策應該有相當瞭解，中共此舉無非想對「背叛」的人，伺機給點顏色。