Following the visits to Taiwan by former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher one after the other, at the end of November, Juergen Moellemann, German vice-chancellor and minister of economic affairs, led a huge economic and traded elegation of more than 60 members to Taiwan, with more than 20 German reporters trailing along behind.
繼德國前總統施密特、法國前總統季斯卡，以及英國前首相柴契爾夫人在去年陸續來華訪問；十一月中，德國副總理兼經濟部長莫勒曼率領一支六十人的龐大經貿團訪華，隨行的還有廿餘位德國記者。