Coming around the first anniversary of Ma's inauguration as president, Taiwan's participation in the WHA has been seen as an important test of Ma's conciliatory cross-strait policies and "survivalist" foreign policy. The credit that Ma himself has gotten for the fact that Taiwan has overcome this hurdle so smoothly is reflected in political opinion polls.
在馬總統就職一週年之際，是否獲邀參加 WHA，是檢驗兩岸和解及「活路外交」新政策的最重大考驗，如今順利過關，加分作用也反映在馬政府的民調上。