After the Chinese New Year, direct charter flights between China and Taiwan and Beijing's dispatch of two senior representatives to Taiwan for the memorial service of Cross-Strait Foundation chairman Koo Chen-fu appeared to signal a thaw in cross-strait relations.
年初以來春節包機、派員來台弔唁海基會董事長辜振甫所營造的兩岸和緩氣氛為之中斷，也為台海情勢再度投下了不可測的變數。