Under these circumstances, the government's offshore shipping center may well have opened up a crack in the door for cross-strait shipping. Ships flying a foreign flag that have received government permission can sail straight from Kaohsiung Harbor to the mainland. What has not changed is that vessels flying the ROC flag, as always, cannot cross the strait, and crafts flying the five-starred PRC flag are not allowed into Taiwan.
在這種情況下，政府的境外航運中心算是為兩岸直航開了一扇門縫﹘﹘只要經過政府批准、掛外國國旗的船舶，可以從高雄港直航大陸；不變的是，青天白日旗依舊不准過去，五星旗也不准過來。