在「大陸政策」或「中國政策」名稱都煞費思量的情形下，要對兩千年總統大選後民進黨政府對北京的政策進行公允合理的評論，有如不可能的任務，不過就全球化與民族國家兩大思潮對民進黨政府制訂政策的影響情形，進行比較分析，應是認識新政府對北京政策本質的好方式；根據丙尼克「全球公共政策」一書所應用的概念架構，可以得悉，只要法律主權仍是國際社會的主要構成單元，要想在不違背雙方主權立場下，建立台海正式的關係機制，短期內似乎甚難成功，也即，對於如何在促使兩岸經濟關係正常化情形下，同時又能解決「一個中國原則」的問題，從新政府在選前所提政見與選後所執行的政策，還很難看出令人信服的辦法，而另項選擇是國際互賴與加速全球化，雖然一時也無法解決此項難題，但多少透露出一些端倪。

Whether we call the Democratic Progressive Party Administration‘s post-election policy toward Beijing " the Mainland Policy" or "the China Policy, " any sound evaluation to that policy is almost a mission impossible. However, making a comparison between two dominant ideologies - globalization and nation-state一 is a useful way to organize our thoughts about the essence of the policy. By using a framework constructed by Reinicke in his "Global Public Policy, " the author finds that formal relationships between Mainland China and Taiwan will not be successful so long as both sides continue to claim legal sovereignty over all of China. From this point of view, the DPP administration has not shown a credible way to build relations with Beijing in both the normalization of the functional relations and the solution to the "One China" puzzle. A different approach. which takes account of international interdependency and accelerating globalization. seems called for