Legislator Chou Hsi-wei has criticized the Investigation Bureau for making an espionage arrest at a sensitive time, when Li Yafei, deputy secretary-general of the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), was preparing to visit Taiwan.
調查局是否會向王緒添道歉，尚未可知。立委周錫瑋卻認為，調查局在海協會副秘書長李亞飛訪台期間抓人，時機太敏感。