"Right now they have no excuse to attack Taiwan, and Chen Shui-bian has shown himself to be very conciliatory, so they don't want to verbally attack him. All they can do is to criticize vice president Annette Lu to vent their frustration," he says. The pre-election atmosphere made cross-strait relations like a spring lightning storm that doesn't break.
「現在沒有武力攻台的藉口，陳水扁又表現得十分善意，要嚴詞批評他也不是，所以只好以『批呂（秀蓮）』來渲洩」，他說，選前的氣氛使得目前兩岸的關係就像春雷打不下來一樣，「悶在那裡」，兩岸都急需「下台階」。