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China’s Need for an Eternal Enemy

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Oct 09, 2006
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In what is being called a breakthrough in much of the world’s press, Shinzo Abe was received relatively warmly in Beijing in his first visit outside Japan as the country’s newly installed prime minister. Driven together to some extent by North Korea’s stunning decision Monday to defy the world and test an atomic weapon, the two countries issued a joint …

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