To avoid being too "ostentatious" and incurring unnecessary harassment from the Chinese Communists, he must sometimes "cautiously turn down sensitive invitations," as he once put it in an interview. Examples of his boundless energy are numerous.
在很多場合，Fred Chien 是受邀在場的唯一外國人，以致他為了避免太「招搖」，引來中共抗議等不必要的困擾，要「審慎地婉謝敏感的邀請」﹘ ﹘錢代表在接受紐約時報訪問時指出。