De proposed that Taiwan's strategy should be to "go on the attack. We shouldn't be someone else's pawn. We shouldn't wait to see what China or Southeast Asia do before deciding on our own course. That's a dangerous approach."
他提出的戰略是，「主動出擊，不要當別人的棋子，不要看大陸怎麼走、東南亞怎麼走，我們才怎麼走，這種思維很危險。」