Lai states that nobody thought that the "courtesy call" they made on President Lee, at which they repeated suggestions they had already offered to the government several times previously, would be interpreted as "reporting on an industry in crisis" and make such waves.
他指出，沒想到這麼一場「例行的禮貌性拜會」、提出的訴求也是三番兩次早已向政府建議過的，竟還會被外界解釋為「向總統陳情、告急」，引發這麼大風波。