C.K. Lee, the Taipei Times president, says the paper will aim to help Taiwan "stand up and speak its mind" in the international community, using English "both to take Taiwan to the world and bring the world to Taiwan." Chinese papers just don't serve this function.
《英文台北時報》社長李長貴也說，辦英文報是為了幫台灣「出一口氣」，要藉助英文媒體「把台灣帶到國際，把國際帶到台灣」，而中文報就沒有這個功能。