Of course, part of the op- position of the DPP is to "all those old overseas Chinese who do not even know where Taiwan is." Thus it was that when some legislators advocated slashing the OCAC's budget, once official guarantees were given that more care would be taken of new overseas Chinese in future, they did not persist with the issue.
固然部分民進黨人士反對的是「很多連台灣在哪裡都不知道的老僑」﹘﹘例如有些立法委員本來大力主張刪減僑委會預算，但經官員保證今後會對新僑多加照顧，就不再堅持。