In this special year-end edition of China Up Close, column author and Nikkei Senior Staff Writer Katsuji Nakazawa selects the most important and poignant pieces published earlier this year.
TOKYO -- 2019 was a difficult year for China's leadership as it marked the 30th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.







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