The next day, in an editorial, the same paper urged China not to forget that a precondition to good relations between the US and China was that Taiwan's future should only be decided by peaceful means.
紐約時報第二天又以題為「中國威脅台灣」之社論，提醒北京不要忘了中美建立於尼克森政府時的友好關係，其前提是台灣未來回歸中國必須以和平方式達成。