So ponders Chen Chung-shin, director of the Policy Research Center of the Democratic Progressive Party. The conservative image of former chairman Huang Kun-huei did not fit in with the idea of a more open policy, but that of "Smiling Siew," with his economic background, does.
民進黨中央黨部政策研究中心主任陳忠信認為，以前任陸委會主委黃昆輝的保守形象，較不適合這樣的「基調」；而出身經貿的「微笑老蕭」就可能比較合適。