中国对该地区的政策，再加上中国代表团领导人在此次活动中的行为本身，促使瑙鲁总统 — — 他统治着世界上最小的共和国，只有1.1万名居民 — — 谴责中国在南太平洋的“傲慢”存在，并宣称中国不能“向我们发号施令 ” 。
Chinese policies in the region, together with the Chinese delegation leader’s behavior at the event itself, drove the president of Nauru – the world’s smallest republic, with just 11,000 inhabitants – to condemn China’s “arrogant” presence in the South Pacific. China cannot, he declared, “dictate things to us.”