At the same time, multinational corporations like Coca Cola, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and IBM were fleeing Peking in droves. The Bank of Japan decided to freeze two loans to the mainland totalling US $ 145 million, and the World Bank was considering postponing a loan program of US $ 340 million.
反觀外國如可口可樂、肯塔基炸雞、IBM 等跨國企業，則紛紛自北平「出走」；此外，日本銀行決定凍結大陸兩筆總額達一億四千五百萬美元的貸款，世界銀行也考慮延後一項對中共三億四千萬美元的貸款計畫。