Jiang was also reported to have decided to suspend contacts between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits in the run up to Taiwan's presidential election next March. But according to PRC Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhang Qiyue, Wang Daohan's visit to Taiwan in the fall has not yet been canceled.
據傳江澤民已決定，在明年台灣總統大選前，暫停海基、海協兩會交流事宜，但中共外交部發言人章啟月說，官方尚未取消汪道涵訪台。