These doubts and opinions have been offered before by academics here in Taiwan, but when world-renowned economic competitiveness expert Professor Michael Porter of Harvard came to Taiwan as a guest of the government and endorsed the same views, speaking with great resolve, it immediately sent tremors through Taiwan. What this foreign scholar said sounded at the same time new and familiar.
這些聲音，國內學者也曾提過，不過，當美國哈佛大學教授、國際級的「競爭力大師」邁可．波特挾著國賓之姿，以超高分貝斬釘截鐵指陳出來後，立刻在國內引發震撼。遠來的和尚，念出的經果如暮鼓晨鐘，似遙遠又熟悉。