After the speech, a wave of praise home and abroad flooded the electronic and print media. Of course the response of government officials and pro-KMT scholars was most approving. Yet, even Chen I-hsin, a scholar of Sino-American relations and a newly elected legislator from the New Party (an anti-Taiwan independence party that is also seen as opposing Lee), had a quite positive assessment.
演說發表後，國內外一片讚揚，國內官員、政治立場偏向執政黨的學者不必說，連一向被認為有反李情結的新黨學者，也是新科立委、精研中美關係的淡大教授陳一新，也有相當正面的分析。