On the evening of November 18 Advisory Group chairman Lee Yuan-tseh, meeting over dinner with DPP faction leaders, described the cross-strait situation as extremely precarious, and said that since time is not on Taiwan's side we need to step up efforts to resume dialogue with the mainland.
跨黨派小組召集人李遠哲十八日晚間與民進黨各派系領導人餐敘時說，現在兩岸關係非常險峻，時間對我們不利，應加緊與大陸恢復協商。