In its recently issued 1999 White Paper, the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei expressed reservations about the government's insistence on its "no haste, be patient" policy for commercial ties with the mainland, and its unwillingness to open the way to direct links across the Taiwan Strait, and suggested that Taiwan has missed its opportunity to become a regional operations center for the Asia-Pacific.
最近在台美商發表的「一九九九白皮書」中，就對政府堅持產業「戒急用忍」政策、不肯開放兩岸三通頗有微詞，認為台灣錯失了成為亞太地區營運中心的關鍵時機。