Perry's efforts were very successful, but the scheme ran aground after then-ROC president Lee Teng-hui angered Beijing by announcing his "special state to state" formula for cross-strait relations. A planned visit to Taiwan by Wang Daohan was canceled, and the official contact channel was once again shut down.
裴利主導的第二管道成效斐然，隨後卻因李登輝總統提出「特殊國與國關係論」而遭橫梗，原訂訪台的汪道涵行程取消，兩岸溝通的正式管道亦隨之再度封閉。