When the New Kuomintang Alliance wanted to establish a new political party, they went to the United States and Southeast Asia to seek support. John Chang readily admits that the abolishment of the blacklist which used to exist to stop certain people from entering Taiwan was largely related to hard work on the part of overseas Chinese.
像「新國民黨連線」要籌組新黨，就到美國、東南亞尋求他們的奧援；章孝嚴不諱言國內入境「黑名單」的取消，與海外華人的努力也有很大關係。