For James Soong, restructuring of party politics offers two main challenges: First, in policy terms, he will have to figure out how to play down traditional issues of ethnicity and of reunification vs. independence, so that Taiwan party politics is no longer purely an ideological struggle fought over symbols, but involves rational debate over public policy.
對宋楚瑜來說，政黨重組將提出兩大挑戰：在路線上，如何淡化舊有的統獨分歧和族群分歧，使台灣的政黨競爭不再陷入純屬象徵符號的意識型態對峙，導向理性的公共政策辯論。