It was in the mid-1980s that Taiwan, out of the UN and diplomatically adrift from the US--and already accustomed to its status as an international orphan--began belatedly, by its own efforts, to build invisible new bridges with the outside world.
民國七十年代中期，已因退出聯合國、中美斷交而飽嘗國際「孤兒」滋味的台灣，用一雙勤奮的手向全世界搭起更緊密的無形之橋。