The news originated with Chen Zhangtai, director of the PRC Ministry of Education's Institute of Applied Linguistics. Taiwanese scholars and foreign ministry officials agree that it is worth exploring why Chen chose to spread this piece of "news" at this particular juncture. Traditional versus simplified
事實上，此一消息來源出自中國應用語言學會會長陳章太之口，我外交單位及學者一致認為，中國學者此時此刻釋出此一訊息，有必要進一步瞭解其動機。