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Biden calls US ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with Russia and China (www.cnn.com)

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[-] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

... BBC's long term Japan correspondent wrote an article about it when he finally left, and I'm pretty sure he's fluent.

I wouldn'y be too sure about being fluent part. I am an Indian and I have seen bulk of so called indologists (professors in American and European academia) unable to pronounce common sanskrit words - despite writing bestsellers on the subject.

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