Besides strengthening political and economic ties to the region, Lee used the trip to emphasize on several occasions that Taiwan would not be isolated, and that however much the PRC attempts to isolate Taiwan, it cannot change the fact of the ROC's existence as a sovereign state.
此次李總統訪問中南美洲，除了加強和友邦的經貿交流和邦誼，也多次在公開場合宣示，我們不能孤立在一個小小的台灣，儘管中共多方圍堵我國的國際空間，但是絕不影響我們作為一個主權國家的存在事實。