According to Chao Chien-min, director of National Chengchi University's Sun Yat-sen Graduate Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, pragmatic diplomacy gave the ROC more international breathing room and upgraded relations between Taiwan and the US.
政治大學中山人文社會學院社會科學研究所所長趙建民指出，務實外交使得中華民國的國際空間打開，也使得台灣與美國的關係有所提昇。