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All eyes on Beijing as Taiwan set to attend Japan’s atomic bomb memorials for first time

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Beijing ‘unlikely to tolerate’ symbolic weight of Taiwan’s presence at the events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, observer says.
Taiwan is set to join Japan’s memorial ceremonies next month for the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, marking the island’s first participation in the annual events.
Observers said Beijing was likely to take a dim view of the matter, though the scale of its response might depend on the rank of the Taiwanese attendees.

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