In the early days agencies from both sides of the Taiwan Strait were looking to back him financially, but he "could not and dared not" accept--first, he didn't want to compromise the newspaper's independent stance, and second, if even the slightest political meddling were discovered, he feared the result might well be catastrophic.
近幾年來，隨著台獨暴力分子彼此火拚、聲勢漸弱，巴西僑社的「政治風潮」已成過去，辦報以外的困擾略見減少，倒是辦報本身的技術問題始終無法突破，尤以「三才」﹘﹘人才、錢財、器材﹘﹘缺乏，最令袁方傷腦筋。