When hawk meets hawk Chou Chi-ping (senior advisor at Business Weekly) and Tseng Fu-sheng (general secretary of the KMT's Department of Mainland Operations) felt that the future of cross-strait relations is still up in the air. Chou, as a former official with the Straits Exchange Foundation, has had direct dealings with the Chinese Communists.
對兩岸關係較持保留態度的，則包括商業周刊首席顧問石齊平和國民黨陸工會秘書曾復生。