Chiu Chao-lin of the Institute of European and American Studies of the Academia Sinica says that the US is keen to avoid being drawn into another Asian civil war by a crisis in the Taiwan Straits. Although the US constantly says that it is not willing to be an intermediary, it is able to use a variety of private activities to push the restart of negotiations.
中研院歐美所研究員裘兆琳則指出，美國極不希望台海陷入危機而捲入亞洲另一場內戰，因此雖然官方反覆重申不做兩岸調人，卻可利用各種民間場合不斷敦促兩岸復談。