What is different about your analyses compared to others? A: Before the missile crisis, analysts in both the US government and academia saw cross-strait relations in black and white terms. They thought the military situation would either result in all-out war or nothing at all. I didn't think that this was the case, but thought rather that between these two extremes there was a large gray area.
答：當時不管是政界或學界對台海關係的理解都是非黑即白的，認為兩岸的軍事危機只有打或不打兩種結果，我認為不應該是如此，在危機的兩極結果間應該有灰色地帶，也就是：中共不會征服我們，但我們會受到相當的傷害。