Even the promoters of Tongyong Pinyin accept this basic premise, which is why, when enumerating the advantages of their system, they argue that "it is also very international" because "it isn't very different from Hanyu Pinyin."
即便是標榜為親本土的通用拼音也是以這樣的方式在思考，因此，才會以「與漢語拼音只有些微差異」來做為其「也很國際化」的理由。