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A man poses with a full page map with the headline "Japan wants a war again" and showing mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that was published on the July 3, 2014 issue of the Chongqing Youth Daily newspaper, days after Japan reinterpreted its war-renouncing constitution to allow a greater military role, in Chongqing, China, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Japan has protested to China over cartoon drawings of exploding mushroom clouds in a Japanese map published in the newspaper last week, saying the graphic offended the atomic bombing survivors and their relatives. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT (AP)

China and WWII’s “Sarajevo” moment

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The handover of Hong Kong revisited

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