Pragmatic diplomacy But others prefer to view Lee Teng-hui's mainland China policy in terms of the overall picture of his presidency. According to Wang Tso-yung, who has known the former president for decades, Lee's policy of indigenization and his call for people to identify themselves as "new Taiwanese" plainly amount to "Taiwan not wanting to reunify with the mainland."
但是也有人認為，解讀李登輝主政期間的大陸政策要看全面，從李登輝主政以來的「本土化」政策、「新台灣人的族群」訴求等，「就是要台灣不跟大陸統一」，和李登輝是幾十年老朋友的王作榮說。