Concerning the wave of opinion against the overseas Chinese, Kuomintang legislator C.J. Chen, once vice minister for foreign affairs, thinks that this is an unavoidable phenomenon of democratization.
對於社會上發出的反僑聲浪，曾任外交部次長的國民黨籍立法委員程建人認為，這是國家政治民主化之後免不了的現象。