For the Singapore government offcials who had gone to Changi international airport to see him off, President Lee Teng-hui's trip to Singapore formally concluded on March 9 at 1: 00 P.M., but for R.O.C citizens the best was yet to come. The problems between the two countries seemed to many people like a chain of knots, waiting for President Lee to unravel one by one.
對於前來送機的新加坡政府官員而言，李登輝總統的訪星行，在三月九日下午一時，就於樟宜國際機場正式結束了；但對國人來說，好戲卻在後頭：在大家心中，中星之間種種問題正如連環相結，有待李總統一一解開。