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April 11, 2012

To Avoid Clash, Japan, China & U.S. Must Talk

Frank Ching, China Post

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In the old days, when Japan was the world's second-largest economy, American officials used to describe the U.S.-Japan relationship as “the most important bilateral relationship in the world, bar none.” Nowadays such words, if spoken, refer to China, not Japan.

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