As Chen Chien-jen, currently head of the ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is a main sponsor of the exhibit, points out: That local officials in the 16th and 17th centuries were able to decide on their own to allow use of national territory in response to Portuguese requests shows, from a modern point of view, that Chinese ideas of national territory were ill-defined at that time.
《澳門史料展》的主要策展單位外交部部長程建人指出，以現代的觀點來看，十六世紀當葡萄牙向我要求使用領土，地方官員就可以批准決定，當時的國土觀念及護土制度都顯得不足。