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SOUTH Korean President Park Geun Hye has discovered first hand the feeling of getting the cold shoulder from China.
Under the fluent Mandarin speaker's watch, South Korea had seen improved ties with China, drawn together in part by concern about Japan's wartime past and the military ambitions of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Ms Park was the only leader of a US ally to attend a military parade in China last year for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Now, relations t…
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