Perhaps the most optimistic view was expressed by Ruan Ming, a visiting professor at Tamkang University's Department of China Studies who in the 1980s was an assistant to former Chinese Communist Secretary General Hu Yaobang.
持相當樂觀看法的以前中共總書記胡耀邦的助理、現在淡江大學大陸研究所擔任訪問研究員的阮銘為代表。