So long as the Basic Law is adhered to in Hong Kong, Taiwan will not change economic and trade relations with it. In sum, the countdown has already begun for the transfer of power in Hong Kong, the chief executive of the SAR has been selected, and the "one country, two systems" experiment is about to begin.
行政院經建會主委江丙坤認為，台灣在九七後仍會把香港當成兩岸經貿往來的轉運地，香港只要信守「基本法」，台港經貿關係應不致有所變化。