The US responded negatively to Lien Chan's proposal to build long-range missiles. At the State Department's end-of-year press conference, US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control John Holum said that the US did not want to see Taiwan take any action which would violate the basic norms of the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime. Thus the US would not be happy to see Taiwan develop offensive long-range missile systems.
去年底連戰提出長程飛彈的計畫後，美國政府隨即在國務院的年終記者會中，由國務次卿赫倫表態：美國不願見到台灣做出違反一九八七年「導彈技術管制建置」基本規範的舉動，亦即並不樂見台灣發展攻擊性的長程飛彈系統。