At the beginning of September, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum was held in Auckland, New Zealand. Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) chairman Chiang Ping-kun represented president Lee Teng-hui at the conference. However, in Taiwan the focus of all attention was on the results of the Clinton-Jiang Zemin summit, and whether both Taiwan and mainland China could smoothly enter the WTO by the end of the year.
九月初，APEC 在紐西蘭奧克蘭市召開，經建會主委江丙坤代表李登輝總統與會，然而國內各界關注的焦點皆在於柯江高峰會的結果與年底兩岸是否可順利加入 WTO。