Foreign sinologists feel that in such a situation, with the country caught in a struggle between existence and principles, a flexible foreign policy is limited in what it can accomplish, and that the ROC's policies should be "a bit more realistic."
處於此種生存與原則的僵局中，研究中國問題的外國學者多認為，實質外交的彈性運用能發揮的效果有限，中華民國的決策者應該「實際一點」。