Former SEF secretary general Cheyne Chiu, who has taken part in previous cross-strait negotiations, notes that the meetings between Koo Chen-fu and Wang Daohan a decade ago were purely political in nature, while this month's talks dealt with concrete matters of policy and were thus different in terms of significance and level.
曾參與兩岸談判的海基會前秘書長邱進益表示，10 年前的「辜汪會談」是政治性會面，沒有實質談判，這次是卻是具體的政策協商，意義和層次皆不同。