And according to Professor Liu Pi-jung of Soochow University's politics department, the "special state-to-state" formula can be seen as Lee's masterstroke, a proposal pitched between the alternatives represented by "one country, two systems" and "Taiwan independence," with the ultimate objective of moving towards a confederation.
而東吳大學政治系教授劉必榮更指出，「特殊國與國」關係可說是李登輝因應兩岸關係的高度謀略，「在中共提出的『一國兩制』與『台獨』之間要價，最終目的應是希望走向邦聯」，他說。