As the media turned to discussion of various countermeasures, in October Japan's Sankei Shimbun published a secret document of the PRC's Central Military Commission which revealed that mainland China would "take military action to reunify with Taiwan" before 1996.
當國內媒體轉向討論各種因應對策時，日本產經新聞在十月中發表一份中共軍委會的機密文件，內容透露中共將在一九九六年以前「武力統一台灣」。