Trip to Asia to highlight China’s increasing power

 
By The Associated Press
Published: November 9, 2009

BEIJING — Days after coming to power in September, Japan ’s new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States .

Some in Washington took it as a snub from the nation that has been America’s rock in Asia for decades. Even more, Tokyo ’s new rhetoric underscored how China’s rapid rise to power is chal...


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