For example, after the 1996 missile crisis, William Perry, who had already left office, relayed the view of the American government to high-level officials and to the then-opposition Democratic Progressive Party that the US would not look kindly on Taiwan independence if this led to a crisis in the Taiwan Strait.
如外傳裴利曾在九六年飛彈危機後，為美國政府向台灣高層及當時在野的民進黨重要人士表示「美國不樂見到台獨而導致台海危機」。