And there is little character to their local coverage. Apart from a few articles written by their own staffs, most of their local news cover age is simply translated from the Chinese-language press "without really any understanding of what is going on." And readers find it hard to discern any substantial difference between the two papers. "They can't serve as the English-language papers that represent Taiwan on the international stage."
他舉例，國際新聞的編輯選擇原則感覺是「有新聞放上去就好」；國內新聞也沒有自己特色，除了少數新聞由自己記者撰稿，常常只是將中文報紙的新聞翻成英文，「一起打迷糊仗」，讀者也分不清兩家報紙有何差別，「不是能在國際上代表台灣的英文報。」