In the September issue of Life Magazine, a five-page feature story attacked the alleged profusion of counterfeit manufacturers operating out of the Republic of China. This article was later followed by two successive stories which appeared in Newsweek and the Asia Magazine respectively. Describing Taiwan as a "haven" for illegal manufacturing piracy, the reports seemed to imply that the nation was the leading culprit in this rampant international affliction.
去年九月，美國生活雜誌以五頁的篇幅，「報導」自由中國台灣工人製造仿冒品的情形，標題打出「台灣新興的行業﹘﹘仿冒業」；接著，十二月出版的美國新聞週刊及亞洲雜誌亦以「仿冒」為題推出專文，也把箭頭指向我國，稱台灣為「海盜的避難港」。