Following the meeting last June between US president Bill Clinton and China's Jiang Zemin, the ROC National Unification Council issued a statement on relations across the Taiwan Strait. Surprisingly, perhaps, this statement quoted not from Confucius, but from Laozi, who has in the past been criticized for having a negative, do-nothing attitude.
去年六月柯江會後，中華民國國統會針對兩岸關係發表文告，行文中引用了古籍，不是至聖先師孔子的教誨，卻是出自一向被視為「消極無為」的老子。