Chen Shui-bian, the Democratic Progressive Party's presidential candidate, claimed to have read the book in its entirety prior to the press conference. Chen commented that the "thesis of seven regions" was the book's major flaw, and that it poses the danger of shrinking Taiwan's status to that of a local government within China.
自稱在李總統新書發表會之前即已讀完全書的民進黨「準總統候選人」陳水扁則指出，「七塊論」是這本書的敗筆，有將台灣矮化為中國地方政府的危險。