BY AARON BACK AND BOB DAVIS
TOKYO—By pulling its top representatives from an international economic conference last week to make a point about its unhappiness with Tokyo over an unrelated territorial dispute, China raised questions of whether it can play the leading role in international economic organizations that it desires.
With the last-minute withdrawal of its finance minister and chief central banker, China drew global attention to its dispute with Japan over a group of small uninhabited islands. But the move had costs to Beijing, deepening concerns that it won't compromise with other Asian nations on similar territorial disputes, and that it isn't ready to play ...
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