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日本希望与美国关系密切,但又不想过于亲近Japan wants the U.S. close. Just not too close

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在谈及与日本的贸易政策摩擦时,这位美国总统言辞直率。他说道:‘自我们政府上任以来,就有一个关键的贸易政策目标,那就是消除美国商品和服务进入日本市场的障碍。

The U.S. president wasn’t mincing words when it came to ructions in trade policy with Japan.“From the beginning of our administration we’ve had a key trade policy objective, and that was to break down the barriers to the sales of U.S. goods and services,” he said.

我们希望达成能切实改善市场准入状况并提升美国产品销量的协议。’

“We want agreements that produce permanent improvement in access and in U.S. sales.”

不过,说话的人并非唐纳德·特朗普,而是时任美国总统乔治·H·W·布什。

Except that was not Donald Trump speaking, but then-U.S.

那是1992年,正值布什作为总统最后一次正式访日期间,他在奈良县一家玩具反斗城门店的开业典礼上发表了这番讲话。

President George HW Bush in 1992, at a rather unlikely venue: The opening of a Toys R Us store in Nara Prefecture, during Bush’s last official visit to Japan as leader.