Firstly, after the senior officials of the ROC and Iceland met, PRC foreign affairs spokesman Shen Guofang issued a strongly worded criticism. He asserted that Prime Minister Oddson was interfering in "the internal affairs of China" and damaging relations between the PRC and Iceland, and that Iceland would be responsible for the consequences.
先是在我國與冰島兩國首長會晤之後，中共外交部發言人沈國放發表強烈的言詞抨擊，指責冰島總理奧德森干涉「中國內政」，破壞中共和冰島的關係，並要冰島方面為後果負責。