A senior diplomat once complained, in recent years no matter what kind of progress we have made in foreign relations, the first reaction citizens have is usually not, "what efforts have the diplomats made?"
一位資深外交官有次語帶委屈地抱怨，近年不管我們在外交上有任何進展，國人第一個反應通常不是外交人員做了什麼努力，而是「花了多少錢」。