More than 100 scholars from National Taiwan University and National Chengchi University signed a petition entitled "A Declaration to Our Fellow Countrymen," declaring that President Lee's theory of "state-to-state" relations has not been recognized by the international community and is not helpful to the expansion of Taiwan's diplomatic activities.
國內的台灣大學、政治大學等一百多位學者，則連署了「告全國同胞書」，認為總統提出「兩國論」不獲國際社會認同，同時無助我國外交工作拓展，因此呼籲政府停止「兩國論」。