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Nikkei's China bureau chief offers snapshots of politics amid the pandemic
Copies of "The Governance of China Volume 3," a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches, are displayed at a bookstore in Beijing on June 30. (Photo by Tetsushi Takahashi)
TETSUSHI TAKAHASHI, Nikkei China bureau chief
June 1, 2020 16:12 JST
Updated on July 1, 2020 15:43 JST
The Chinese government has made strides in containing the coronavirus, which infected tens of thousands and killed more than 4,000 people in the country while spreading worldwide. At the same time, Beijing is locked in an increasingly heated diplomatic confrontation with Washington. Nikkei's bureau chief in China, Tetsushi Takahashi, is filing dispatches on what he sees.