BEIJING: A Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece on Tuesday criticised Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in unusually harsh terms, denouncing the leader for comparing the Asian rivals' tensions to the British-German relationship before World War I.
"Abe's outright distortion of truth and blatant smearing of China using his gangster logic is proof of Japan's refusal to recognise its depraved history of imperialist aggression, expansion and colonial domination," the People's Daily wrote in an editorial.
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