[1] The meeting focused on fund raising and the planning of a final revolution to overthrow the Qing dynasty that would make or break the Tongmenghui.
A financial goal was set to raise at least $100,000 among the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia Nanyang.
[2] The Tongmenhui headquarters in Tokyo was not told of this meeting, and party leaders who opposed or doubted him were not invited.
[1] After this meeting Sun would leave Penang for North America, United States.
[2] Another reason was that Straits administrator John Anderson ordered him to be banned because of inflammatory speech to incite support for his anti-Manchu revolutions on 26 November 1910, at a Chinese club.