— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn Read full book for free! ...tremulously. I can never get it out of my head that the Chinese habitually torture the inquiring visitor. Probably I read the wrong sort of books when I was young. One of them, I remember, had illustrations...
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. They also attacked Guam, Malaya, Wake Island, the Philippines and Hong Kong. But one location not mentioned in President Roosevelt’s famous speech, is the Japanese assault on the Shanghai International Settlement. Commenced just hours after the attack on Pearl ...
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In May 1950, after Chinese communist forces occupied Hainan island, U.S. President Harry S. Truman began covertly authorizing direct financial assistance to the French, and on June 27, 1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War, announced publicly that the U.S. was doing so. It was feared...
On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China with its capital at Beiping, which was renamed Beijing. Chiang Kai-shek and approximately two million Nationalist Chinese retreated from mainland China to the island of Taiwan in December of the same year. During the wa...
Oct 22, 1942: Australian forces land on Goodenough Island off New Guinea, clashing with Japanese troops already there Oct 23, 1942: Major James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin Roosevelt, is … Continue Reading → Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, Oct 15 – 21, 1942 By Peter Harmsen 31...
The island now has significant economic interests, including investments in China. Pro-independence groups worry that this economic dependence may hinder their goals. Whereas pro-reunification groups in Taiwan, as well as China, hope that increasing people-to-people contacts will eventually wear down...
In 1905, US President Theodore Roosevelt called for reform of a discriminatory law restricting Chinese immigration after an “especially injurious” boycott of US cotton. “It is short-sighted indeed for us to permit foreign competitors to drive us from the great markets of China,” he warned. ...
During the winter of 1941–42, the grand strategy of the United States and Great Britain called for the defeat of Germany first and then an assault across the Pacific against Japan’s island empire. China was relegated to a low position in U.S. strategic planning. The United States aimed ...
For example, the Treaty of Nanjing signed by China after its defeat in the First Opium War, provided for the cession of Hong Kong Island to the United Kingdom (among other things), and is considered the first of the unequal treaties imposed by foreign powers on China. If the 1898 Treaty...