Regrettably, however, while Lee Teng-hui was implementing "indigenization," putting "Taiwan first," and energetically promoting Taiwan as a sovereign state on the international stage, relations across the Taiwan Strait became increasingly estranged and suspicion-ridden.
遺憾的是，李登輝在貫徹「本土化」、「台灣優先」、極力將台灣以主權國家型態推進國際舞台之際，兩岸關係卻漸行漸遠、嫌隙日深。