Yu Ying-shih, on the other hand, says that the Communist Chinese have forgotten how in the old days they fed off corruption in the KMT to get a leg up, and how they used "a little barley and guns so old they had to be urine-cooled" to defeat the KMT forces with all their American-supplied weapons.
中共外長錢其琛說李登輝是「大言不慚」；余英時卻說，中共是忘了當年怎樣利用國民黨的腐敗起家的，當年「小米加步槍」打敗了有著美援武器的國民黨軍隊。