China looms large as the elephant in the room as Japan forges ahead with the pandemic-hit Tokyo Games at all costs.
Organisers seem prepared to dismiss warnings that the Games may go down in history as a super-spreader event, while Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is in effect staking his political future with a General Election due by October.
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