Meanwhile, Beijing had begun to praise the virtues of neutralism in Asia. Zhou Enlai cultivated the delegates from the other twenty-eight countries in Bandung, including representatives of America’s allies such as the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. He had a major impact on Prince Sihanouk and subsequent Cambodian foreign policy by convincing him that non-alignment offered the best safeguard for Cambodia’s security against neighbouring historical antagonists, both of whom were allied to the United States.