But, while these efforts have helped to deepen Japan’s economic ties with China, they have not had the transformative impact on bilateral relations that one might have expected. Indeed, their relationship is now characterized by what the Japanese call seirei keinetsu (cold politics, hot economics).
但是，尽管这些努力加深了日本与中国的经济联系，但并没有如预期那样改变双边关系。事实上，日本用“政治冷，经济热”来概括目前的中日关系。