Before the dust had settled regarding the PRC's UN Security Council veto, ROC Foreign Minister John Chang and PRC Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at virtually the same time made trips to Africa to visit countries with which their respective nations have relations, taking the diplomatic war from Central America to a new theater in Africa across the Atlantic.
就在中共在聯合國安理會動用否決權的風波未定之時，我外交部長章孝嚴和中共外長錢其琛，幾乎在同一時間，分別前往非洲訪問各自的邦交國，使兩岸在中南美的外交戰，橫跨大西洋延伸至非洲戰場。