Regrettably, however, since the Qiandao Lake incident, cross-strait relations have gone through a series of setbacks and have been in a state of deadlock more often than not, so that these hopes have largely come to nothing.
遺憾的是，從千島湖事件迄今，兩岸關係起起伏伏，對立僵持的時候居多，連帶著這份期盼也常落空。