He points out that for over ten years a lot of "China watchers" who do not even know a single Chinese character but can only see the surface have been confused by such things as Western companies being able to invest in China, priests distributing Bibles, and the peasants being given their own land, and see them as proof of Teng's reforms.
他指出，十年來，不少中文大字不識、凡事只看表面文章的所謂「中國通」，一個個被「西方財團可以在大陸投資牟利」、「教士可以散發聖經」、「農民可以擁地致富」… … 的表象蒙惑，以之為鄧小平開明改革的明證。