MAC Vice Chairman Chen Ming-tung sounded a similar note during interpellations at the legislature. When asked whether Lee Kuan Yew had come as Beijing's emissary, Chen said, "I can guarantee that he has not."
而陸委會副主委陳明通在答覆立委質詢李光耀是否為大陸傳話時，也明確回答「保證沒有」。