ROC Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi pointed out that President Lee was only clarifying the political and legal reality of PRC-Taiwan relations in response to a German journalist's observation that "the Beijing government views Taiwan as a renegade province." The "state-to- state" stance does not change the sovereignty over Taiwan that the ROC has held since 1949, nor does it deny the fact that the PRC governs mainland China.
陸委會主委蘇起指出，李總統是為了回應德國記者所說的「北京政府視台灣為叛離的一省」，才進一步強調兩岸的政治與法律現實，「兩國論」其實並沒有改變我國自一九四九年就在台灣行使主權、以及中共統治大陸的事實。