When the Chinese Communists declared over a decade ago that they could "realize the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology within this century," the ROC government pointed out that the basic condition for the realization of the "four modernizations" was political democratization.
中華民國政府於中共十餘年前宣稱「本世紀內可實現農業、工業、國防和科學技術的四個現代化」之時，即曾指出，「四化」的基本條件首在政治民主化，舍此不從，則中共永遠只是殘民以逞的暴虐政權。