Speaking on the attitude of the Taiwan Church toward improved Vatican-PRC relations, Cardinal Shan averred that the Vatican's primary objective in dealing with the PRC government is securing religious freedom for China's more than 10 million Catholics, thus liberating them from persecution at the hands of the government.
單國璽以其長年在教廷工作的觀察表示，教廷之所以和中國大陸政府接觸，主要目的是為了一千多萬教友的信仰自由和解救大陸受迫害的教會，因此台灣教會不會破壞教廷和中共的互動。