When the government moved to Taiwan, Wei saw the numbers of American forces posted on the island and the foreign diplomatic corps and other foreigners increasing by the day, and thought there was a need for more channels of communication. He started in 1949 by publishing just a small mimeographed newsletter.
政府遷台後，魏景蒙看到駐台美軍、外國使館人員和外國人士的人數日增，認為有加強溝通的必要，於是在三十八年先以簡單的油印機，發行小型的英文通訊。