Several legislators along on the trip commented that they went abroad "under the shadow of checkbook diplomacy" but returned home "basking in sunshine."
此次隨同的立委朱鳳芝、馮定國、洪奇昌、陳進丁等人也都表示，他們是「帶著金錢外交的陰影出去，卻懷著陽光回來」。