The visits first became a flashpoint at a crucial time in Sino-Japanese relations in April 1979.
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Gunfire could be heard in the nearby Kibera slum, an opposition stronghold and notorious flashpoint.
Certainly that is the view in the village of Saio, another flashpoint during the war.
Its aim is to reduce tensions across the Taiwan Strait, a flashpoint for decades since 1949.
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To me, Social Memories is another flashpoint in our adjustment into a fully digital culture.
Lawmakers will tend to this issue early in 2008, before this flashpoint becomes a conflagration.
But hunger and despair could make the poorer, blacker eastern provinces a political flashpoint.
It has even persuaded Russia to accept that Crimea, the most dangerous flashpoint, is Ukrainian.
These days focus is squarely on the bond market as the flashpoint where a bubble could burst.
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But as an emotional flashpoint it is potent, especially among the 21% of voters who are Latino.
Some blogs and news organizations are taking an intentionally slower, more thoughtful approach to reporting on heated flashpoint events.
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And that could mean Cuba becomes the flashpoint for an international trade war.
That leads to another potential flashpoint for 2011: the lack of global co-ordination.
Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for over 60 years.
The news reports created a flashpoint in the hydrofracking issue, one of the most contentious New York has ever faced.
Unpaid wages are a common flashpoint for urban workers, as are arbitrary land grabs by the authorities in the countryside.
The police said they were being attacked by a crowd of loyalists at the sectarian flashpoint when the bomb detonated.
Iran, more than Iraq or the reorganization of our intelligence agencies, is the crisis flashpoint in our war against Islamic fanaticism.
Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for over 60 years and two wars have been fought over it.
Activist group the Local Co-ordination Committees said 20 people were killed on Monday, 11 of them in the flashpoint city of Homs.
The chart has been the flashpoint for government scrutiny of the bailout.
The case became the latest flashpoint in the long-running debate over abortion.
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There are also complaints by Indian Muslims about the way Kashmir is progressing, that enclave, and that is a huge, huge flashpoint.
Iraq's oil-rich marshes near the border with Iran are a particular flashpoint.
The flashpoint region of Homs saw at least six people killed in three separate incidents, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
As Australia prepares for an election, this makes it a symbolic flashpoint of the conservative Liberal government's bid to win a fifth term.
The British flag has long been a flashpoint between British loyalists and Irish nationalists, who want Northern Ireland to join the Irish republic.
Two Serbian children have been injured after a hand grenade was apparently thrown at their home in the flashpoint northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica.
The flashpoint brought an edge to the game and referee Craig Thomson had a word with several players in an attempt to calm proceedings.
Abu Wasfi is part of a rebel fighting force that says it is protecting the neighborhood of Khaldiye in the flashpoint city of Homs.
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