Some people think that a travel-weary Sotheby's coming all the way to Taiwan to hold an auction heralded an auspicious advance on the international art scene by Taiwan. Others suspect that Sotheby's coming so far to "sell Chinese art to the Chinese" was more of an "advance on Taiwan" by an international auction house hoping to grab the little tiger's bulging purse.
有人認為蘇富比風塵僕僕來台舉辦拍賣會，是台灣藝壇「進軍國際」的佳兆；也有人質疑，蘇富比千里迢迢來台北將「中國畫賣給中國人」，實則是國際拍賣公司「進軍台灣」，搶食經濟小龍鼓脹的荷包。