Jeffrey Koo, present chairman of the Council for Sino-Korean Economic Cooperation, and director of the influential China Trust, also points out in fairness that "at present ROC-Korea trade is roughly balanced. You can only say that previously the ROC was in an advantageous economic and trading position vis-a-vis Korea; now that advantage is gradually disappearing and the worry is that we might even be overtaken."
現任中韓經濟協進委員會理事長、對經貿外交極有影響力的中國信託董事長辜濂松也提出持平之論：「目前中韓貿易算是相當平衡，只能說以前我們對韓國佔有經貿優勢，現在優勢逐漸減少、甚至有被超前的憂慮罷了。」