The first time he went to France, in 1979, France was playing the China card, and public opinion was left-oriented. ROC personnel in France had to go in person to the police station like tourists every three months just to do their visas. You can imagine how hard it was to do propaganda work at that time.
而後奉派法國兩次，第一次在民國六十八年，當時法國打「中國牌」，社會氛圍左傾，每三個月換一次簽證時都得自己去警察局辦理，他開玩笑地說，「跟恐怖份子一起排隊」，做宣傳工作的困難就可想而知了。