Relations with the mainland at the highest political level have reached impasse after impasse, and dark war clouds gather over the Taiwan Strait; yet at the grassroots level, what with trade links, fishing links and intermarriage, the people are inseparably intermingled, and the same is true on the academic, cultural and religious fronts and even in the entertainment and travel industries.
而兩岸一方面上層政治關係瀕於破裂，戰爭烏雲籠罩，一方面民間底層的通商、通漁、通婚卻水乳交融，學術、文化、宗教，甚至影視、旅遊也都難分彼此。