Yang Kai-huang, a professor of politics at Soochow University in Taiwan, comments that everyone spent a great deal of time discussing trends in the new international order, but ignored that China will inevitably be one of the shapers of the future order in Asia. Moreover, they ignored that mainland China's ability to resist and to dissipate international pressures to make concessions in negotiations is far greater than Taiwan's.
東吳大學政治系教授楊開煌也指出，大家花了不少時間辯論「新秩序」的趨勢，卻忽視了中共必然是亞洲未來秩序的參與締造者之一；而且忽略了在促談的壓力下，中共「抗壓」籌碼和「紓壓」能力都大過我們許多。