It's a long stretch of a connection, (from the other side of the world in fact), but I thought it might be worth mentioning...
Chinese author, Cixin Liu in his sci fi book, "The Three Body Problem" wrote a scene where the group of traitorous humans in league with the Trisolarians, (an alien menace determined to conquer the Earth), are finally taken down by the Good Guys in a trap set up along the Panama Canal.
-A giant ocean vessel in which all the dark hopes and dreams of the anti-humanist movement were kept, and from which their sabotage efforts against humanity were coordinated with the aliens, got dramatically sliced to pieces by nano-fiber strung across the canal. The Good Guys swept in and cleaned up, seized documents and equipment and recovered enough intelligence to give themselves a shot at defense against the alien threat.
They also screwed up global shipping for a while, (one would assume, but I can't recall if Liu mentioned it).
I should also mention that the hero of the story was a Chinese secret services guy.
Hmmm.