WASHINGTON — Escalating disputes between Japan and China are spilling onto newspaper opinion pages around the globe as the rivals try to sway attitudes abroad and placate nationalist fervor at home.

Japan’s ambassador to the US, in the latest salvo, accused China of a propaganda campaign that portrays Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as glorifying Japan’s militaristic past.

“It is not Japan that most of Asia and the international community worry about; it is China,” Kenichiro Sasae wrote in Friday’s Washington Post.

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