However, formal cross-strait relations remain at an impasse. Within Taiwan, opinion is polarized: one camp believes that Taiwan needs China to survive, the other avers that China will be the death of Taiwan.
然而，兩岸政治僵局未解，「成也大陸，敗也大陸」的兩極化看法各據一端，難有交集。一方面，某些台商在大陸大有斬獲的故事廣泛流傳，另方面，許多人則難掩「大家一窩蜂跑去大陸，台灣就完蛋了」的憂心。