Professor Paul Linebarger, after visiting China in 1940, said in his book The China of Chiang Kai-shek that the Kuomintang could greatly strengthen its position if it competed with the Communists in simple reforms and if it engaged in argument about the issues on which the two parties disagreed.
林巴格教授在一九四○年訪問中國大陸以後，曾寫了「蔣介石的中國」一書，其中指出，如果國民黨能夠公開的與共黨辯論彼此不同意的問題，同時進行一些改革，國民黨地位即能大大的增強。