[1][2] Speaking at a seminar in Taipei about future of China in November 2012 after the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Lin said that the initiative for Beijing government to make reform determine the stability and harmony for cross-strait relations.

Taipei government itself has the responsibility to share its 60-year experience of democratization and economic development with Beijing.

[4] Regarding the possibility of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping and Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou meeting during the upcoming APEC China 2014, Lin said that the Mainland China government is free to interpret such meeting as their domestic affairs.

[5] In early July 2013 during a conference at the ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs attended by foreign representatives and ambassadors, Lin said that the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement signed on 21 June 2013 in Shanghai was made in the interest of the interest of the Taiwanese people and that the MAC will continue the socialization with the Legislative Yuan, the public and Taiwanese doing business in Mainland China to promote the pact's advantages.

Only by engaging closer economic cooperation with Mainland China, Taiwan can move forward towards Trans-Pacific Partnership.