"For political reasons, the government used to be very loose about granting passports to residents of the mainland," Chien says. "Now the safety and welfare of the 20 million residents of Taiwan comes first, and the way things are handled has been changed."
「過去政府為了政治號召，對願意放棄中共護照的大陸人士發照極寬，現在基於台灣兩千萬人民的安全與福祉為第一考慮，已經改變作法了」，簡太郎說。