Also, the PRC strongly pressured Panama and boycotted the Canal Conference, so that heads of state from the US, France, Canada, and Japan, who had originally planned to attend, all withdrew, conforming to the PRC's strategy to keep Taiwan down.
再加上中共公然對巴國施壓，抵制此屆巴拿馬運河世界會議，使得原本參加的美、法、加、日等多國元首臨時打退堂鼓，正符合中共對我國一貫的圍堵打壓。