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The Harry Potter wizard is called upon again as Japan strikes back against China


The Harry Potter wizard is called upon again as Japan strikes back against China

The diplomatic row between Japan and China degenerated into name-calling in the British press on Monday, with ambassadors invoking the fictional evil wizard from the Harry Potter series, Lord Voldemort, in claims and counter-claims. In a commentary in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Tokyo’s envoy to London, Keiichi Hayashi, compared Beijing to the arch-villain from JK […]