胡耀邦赞扬了中曾根康弘的勇气并公开警告中国年轻人如果他们“只考虑自己国家的利益，就不是头脑冷静的爱国者。 ”
Hu praised Nakasone’s courage and warned Chinese youth publicly that if they “think merely of the well-being of their own country… they are not sober-minded patriots.”