However, Yeh Ming-feng reminds us that although it is a longstanding policy of the ROC government to encourage southward investment, at this sensitive time it is something that "doesn't need to be trumpeted too loudly": it would be equally undesirable either to give a false impression of "selfless generosity without regard for profit or loss," or one of calculatingly hurrying to profit from other countries 'misfortune.
葉明峰則提醒國人，鼓勵南向本是政府的一貫目標，值此敏感時刻反倒「不必太嚷嚷」；不管是給對方一種「不計盈虧、仗義相助」的錯覺，或是趕著去發別人「國難財」的精明勢利，都是很不好的。