"The fact is that Taiwan puts a lot of effort every year into providing foreign assistance and sending the head of state overseas, but we forget that we engage in foreign relations with our everyday actions," says Cheng Tsun-chi, who is director of Taipei's Bureau of Labor Affairs. More than 30,000 foreign workers, mostly Filipino or Indonesian nannies and nurses, live in Taipei.
「其實台灣每年費盡心機進行元首出訪、金援外交，卻忽略了外交就在我們的日常生活中」，台北市勞工局長鄭村棋指出，台北市有三萬多名外勞，絕大部份是散居在各個家庭中的菲傭、印傭和監護工。