King's statements on the ROC and Taiwan-China relations pulled the debate over On Taiwan away from the human- and women's-rights issues raised by the "comfort women," and refocused it on the issue of Taiwanese independence.
金美齡的台獨言論，無異將漫畫書《台灣論》中的爭議，從慰安婦的女權與人權之爭，提升為國家主權爭議。