America had ended its economic assistance to the ROC in 1965, and it was not long after the signing of the AVRDC's char-ter that the ROC was forced out of the United Nations by pressure from the Communist Chinese. And it was only two years after the formal opening of the center that the international oil crisis began.
民國五十四年，美國經濟援華停止，亞蔬憲章簽署後不久，我國又遭中共打壓而退出聯合國，國際環境丕變；而當亞蔬中心兩年後落成典禮時，國際石油危機也開始了。