Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou was as surprised as the Japanese by the size of the contributions made by his people. Ma had been tilting his government’s policies increasingly toward China, concluding a bilateral framework agreement on economic cooperation.
对于台湾民众对日本所给予的巨额援助，台湾领导人马英九和日本民众一样感到吃惊不已。虽然马英九政府的政策正不断向中国大陆靠拢并向着构建双边经济合作框架的目标迈进，但台湾社会对日本所表现出的同情却令他调整了自己的立场。