The death of entrepreneur-cum-gov-ernment mediator Koo Chen-fu early this year, lack of progress in long-stalled cross-strait relations, and the PRC's anti-secession legislation have all served to kick cross-strait tension up another notch.
年初辜振甫去世，企業家報國的一代典範畫下句點，長期遲滯的兩岸關係尚未有好轉跡象，大陸官方制訂「反分裂法」，更將緊繃情勢拉至最高點，也令人興起「辜汪會」不再，兩岸調人再難尋之嘆。