Calligraphy

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Abe’s Chinese calligraphy wins plaudits in China

Global Politics

The Japanese leader was lauded after he purportedly left a hand-written note in Chinese thanking a cleaner at the hotel he stayed in for the G20 summit in Hangzhou last week.

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