But all good things must come to an end. First came the Asian financial crisis (1997), then the September 21 earthquake (1999), then the bursting of the global dot.com bubble, and then the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, and Taiwan's financial situation steadily deteriorated.
可惜好景不長，之後接連碰到亞洲金融風暴、九二一大地震、全球網路產業泡沫破裂，及美國九一一恐怖攻擊事件等，財政又逐漸惡化。