Getting on track How did track two get started? Lin Chong-pin, currently vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council and formerly assistant director of Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington DC, recalls that there was unofficial cross-strait interaction as early as the late 1980s.
關於第二管道的興起，曾任智庫「美國企業研究所」亞洲部副主任的陸委會副主委林中斌回憶，兩岸最早的二軌互動開始於一九八○年代末期。