For China, Japan looks to be leaving Asia to side with US

Tokyo's policies remind Beijing of 1895 war in which it lost Taiwan

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Performers wait for the start of the reenactment in Beijing of a ceremony from the Qing Dynasty, which was humiliated in a war with Japan. © Reuters

TETSUSHI TAKAHASHI, Editor, Economic News Group

Tetsushi Takahashi was Nikkei China bureau chief from April 2017 to March 2021 and the writer of the Beijing Diary column.

TOKYO -- For a journalist who has returned to Japan after four years in Beijing, the ability to search freely on Google and Yahoo is liberating.

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