Abe: China-Japan Ties 'Similar' to Britain and Germany Before WW1

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the rocky relationship between Japan and China is comparable to that of Germany and Britain before World War One.Mr. Abe's comments came at the World Economic Forum in Davos. His spokesman later denied that the prime minister thinks war is inevitable between the two Asian powers.Tokyo and Beijing have long shared a fraught past, but ties have been especially strained because of a worsening territorial dispute and mutual concerns over each...

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