Before the leaders 'summit, Zhu Bangzao, a spokesperson for the PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated in Kuala Lumpur that after the mainland joins the WTO, Taiwan will only be able to participate in that body as a customs zone. Moreover, he claimed that Taiwan will be ineligible to participate in any of that body's discussion between sovereign nations.
中共外交部發言人朱邦造於領袖高峰會前，在吉隆坡公開指出，中國大陸加入 WTO 之後，台灣才能以關稅領域的名義參加，而且台灣無權參加任何主權國家間的談判。