All of these overseas visits by officials have been related to the SE Asian crisis. Even First Lady Tseng Wen-hui's mid-January invitation to go to Japan to attend the christening of a Far Eastern group ship was assumed to have implications for the whole region's financial situation.
一連串官員出訪都呈現出金融風暴話題，甚至總統夫人曾文惠元月中應遠東集團邀請，前往日本參加新船下水典禮，也被賦予與亞洲整體金融情勢有關的意義。