In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the waragainstJapan.
If it gets any attention in the UK, it's seen as one more tragic consequence of World War II, with British India at the time focused on the waragainstJapan.
The story served the interests of Deng and other Chinese leaders by allowing them to sound suitably ferocious in condemning Tokyo-while at the same time blocking American lawyers from helping Chinese citizens pursue war claims againstJapan.