Truth that has been compelled is better than ambiguous deceitfulness. At least this revelation has shattered the illusion of some in Taiwan that the Chinese Communists would back off by, for example, hanging up their gloves in the foreign-relations arena.
逼出來的真話也比模稜兩可的欺騙好，至少打破了台灣一部分人認為共產中國會作出「外交休兵」等讓步的幻想。