K'o Yung-kuang, from the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, says that visiting relatives on the mainland is merely the first step. Although it's difficult to know the actual impact of such visits, one thing's for sure: There would be no impact if no visit were made.
台灣大學政治系教授葛永光則認為，探親只是對大陸政策的第一步，但不是全部，雖然目前很難評估它的影響力有多大，「但是不過去，就什麼影響都沒有。」