Yet despite rigorous external conditions, Taiwan's political and economic situation, as compared to Japan (three prime ministers in three years) and South Korea (seen for a while as becoming "Asia's Iceland"), has been quite stable.
外在大環境嚴峻，但迄今台灣的政經情況，比起連續 3 年 3 換首相的日本、或是一度有「亞洲冰島」之虞的韓國，仍算是相對穩定。