Hong Kong-Taiwan trade is built on real mutual benefit, but also on the national sentiment of a shared ethnicity. Hence Hong Kong business people, who have never denied that they are "Chinese," naturally had little sympathy for Taiwanese business people's unwillingness to stand up and be counted.
台港經貿植基於實際利益，也植基於血脈相連的民族感情，這一點，從不否認是「中國人」的港商，自然對台商的袖手旁觀頗不諒解。