如果自己不努力捍衛自由，別人也沒有理由替你守護。 以下這一段是上周(Nov. 8th-14th)Economist的一篇文章《Obama's world - Challenges facing Barack Obama》：

Mr. Obama cannot be true to his own principle or to America's vocation and simply ignore the fact that China is authoritarian, or turn the blind eye China does to the gross abuses of rights in places such as Myanmar and Sudan. He dare not forget that not just Taiwan but also Japan and South Korea still depend on America to defend their freedom if China one day turns aggressive.

別人都還覺得對台灣的自由有責任，我們自己卻漠不關心。

史景遷(Jonathan D. Spence)先生十年前在追尋現代中國(In Search of Modern China)裡寫的這一段話，時至今日還是非常正確：