Wang To, a DPP legislator, has written that at a time when most Taiwanese prefer that the current cross-strait arrangement be maintained, Alice King, a self-professed lover of Taiwan, used the Kobayashi controversy to tweak Taiwan's most sensitive nerve, re-igniting the reunification-independence debate and very possibly causing a deterioration in cross-strait relations.
民進黨籍立委王拓就撰文指出，當台灣民心所寄不外於維持現狀，兩岸穩定時，口口聲聲說自己愛台灣的金美齡，卻藉由爭議來挑動台灣最敏感的統獨神經，激發統獨對立，甚至可能導致兩岸關係再度往後倒退。