Lin Chong-pin, vice-chairman of the Main land Affairs Council, states that the ROC side has continually maintained a sincere desire to talk. In the years following the PRC's 1995 unilateral suspension of the negotiating channel, Taipei issued more than 100 public calls, and wrote to Beijing on many occasions, expressing the ROC's desire for discussions. Beijing long ignored these appeals.
陸委會副主委林中斌表示，其實我方在兩岸的談判上一直都抱持著想談的誠懇立場，從一九九五年中共片面中止協商管道起，我方一共發表過一百多次公開呼籲，去函北京多次，表達我方願意協商的意思。