According to Lee Yung, a reporter for the World Journal, the split in the Kuomintang over the presidential elections--in which the maverick Lin-Hau ticket was expelled from the party for challenging the party's Lee-Lien ticket--has created many "needless" conflicts in overseas Chinese society.
根據世界日報記者李勇的觀察，由於國內國民黨的分裂，總統大選出現「李連配」、「林郝配」兩組人馬，兩位副主席又遭開除黨籍，導致海外華人社區也出現許多不必要的紛爭。