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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks to reporters after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on April 16. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)
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Behind China's sudden olive branch to Japan

Beijing's about-face is preparation for trade war with Trump

KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer | China

TOKYO -- On April 16, a day before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met U.S. President Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Tokyo to meet his counterpart, Taro Kono.

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