自從兩岸分治，兩岸施行的僑務政策對巴拿馬的華人也產生一定程度的影響。中華民國歷經了烽火外交政策引起的僑務競爭;因活路外交政策而起的僑務休兵政策，另外在中國大陸方面，經過了文化大革命與改革開放，中華民國與中國大陸每段時期對於華僑的態度都有不同，因而從兩岸的僑務政策對中南美洲，尤其是巴拿馬共和國華僑的影響深入研究。 The history of Chinese-Panamanian begins at the year 1854, when China was under the Ching Dynasty. There were civil wars and also enemies from the outside, time was hard and has forced the people to work overseas as contract workers. In this research have tried to answer the main reason why people want to leave the country, and most of them were forced or drugged to work underpaid. Luckily, for the time being, overseas Chinese had made their way for living around and also Panama. After the cross-strait governments had there own overseas Chinese affairs policy, the way they treated overseas Chinese has influence and changed their perspective of the relationship between the government and themselves.
