中国领导人邓小平的政府 — — 感谢日本没有就1989年天安门大屠杀采取惩罚性制裁，并急切地渴望获得国际认可，更不用说期盼日本的资本和商业技术了 — — 在两年的时间里七次发出邀请。
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s government – grateful for Japan’s reluctance to maintain punitive sanctions over the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and eager for international recognition, not to mention Japanese capital and commercial technologies – had extended seven invitations over two years.