Dr. Edward I-hsin Chen, professor and director of the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University, points out that from the time the content of the ASL draft was first made known until the law was promulgated, the US took a weaker stance than Japan.
淡江大學美國研究所教授陳一新為文指出，從反分裂法草案內容出爐到通過，美國的立場比日本還軟弱。