A recent visitor to a museum in Shenyang, China, dedicated to the outbreak of war between Japan and China in 1931, carried a sign that referred to Japan’s wartime occupation of much of China and called on Tokyo to release a detained Chinese fisherman.Credit...Mark/European Pressphoto Agency BEIJING � For the last several years, one big theme has dominated talk of the future of Asia: As China rises
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