Liu Pi-jung notes that private industry is concerned about profit, not foreign policy. There are numerous international examples of government-directed overseas investment that has failed. Japan, for instance, was once trying to get its industry to invest in Eastern Europe, but because companies feared that the risks there were too great, very few were willing to follow the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's lead.
劉必榮就指出，企業所跟隨的是市場利益，而非政府的外交政策，國際上就有許多政府希望主導企業投資而失敗的例子，以日本希望商界在東歐投資的例子來看，企業界有鑑於當地市場風險過高，很少願意跟隨通產省的主張前往投資。