Nevertheless, looking back at the president's trip, now that the enthusiasm has faded, doubts are surfacing. After all, many wonder, with the stock market plummeting, the dispute over the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant unresolved, the government budget in limbo, and the cross-strait stalemate not even dented, how necessary were these trips?
然而，阿扁出訪後月餘，熱情沉澱之後，民眾卻再度開始質疑，在股市不振、核四紛爭、政府預算短絀、兩岸渾沌不明的情況下，勞師動眾、花銀子如流水的元首外交真有必要嗎？