He stressed that South Africa's guiding principle with regard to the Greater China region had always been the desire to maintain relations simultaneously with both Beijing and the ROC, and therefore, although it would no longer be able to maintain diplomatic ties with Taiwan, everything else would remain unchanged.
他強調南非在有關大中國地區的指導原則一向是希望同時和中共以及中華民國維持關係，故除外交關係無法對台繼續外，餘仍照舊。