— 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 ...
The reef is part of the Spratly Islands, one of the main disputed archipelagos in the South China Sea, some 200 miles west of the Philippine province of Palawan. The Philippines says the offshore region is part of its territory, but it is claimed entirely or in part by China, Brunei, ...
A Chinese marine surveillance ship monitors a Japanese fishing boat off Uotsuri island, one of the disputed islands in the East China Sea© Reuters The pattern was similar for the 2012 boycott of Japanese products. Kilian Heilmann, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, found...
One U.S. response was the decision to send large amounts of arms and equipment to China, along with a military mission to advise on their use. The underlying strategy was to revitalize China’s war effort as a deterrent to Japanese land and naval operations southward. The Nationalist army ...
Taiwan is one of China’s thirty odd provinces and autonomous regions. Taiwan has belonged to China since the Ming dynasty, longer than the United States of America has been in existence. The island of Taiwan was once part of Fujian Province. In the late Qing dynasty Taiwan was upgraded to...
China asserts its sovereignty over Taiwan and is actively preparing for a potential forcible takeover of the island, while the U.S. has shown a growing readiness to support and defend Taiwan.For Prelims: China-Taiwan Conflict, South China Sea, Taiwan Relations Act,1979, One China Policy, ...
To keep the argument going, let’s jump to the point that the detection has been made and the information has been delivered in a timely manner to the launch platform which is then able to fire the weapon. One of the primary advantages of aircraft carriers is that they are mobile. The ...
Re-enacting the Sino-Japanese War: History can be studied in many ways. One of the most direct routes to a visceral feel for what happened to earlier generations is to join the growing ranks of … Continue Reading → Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, Nov 19 – 25, 1942 By Peter Harm...
Simultaneously, political freedom was considerably curtailed because of the Kuomintang’s one-party domination through “political tutelage” and violent shutting down of anti-government protests. At the time, a series of massive wars also took place in western China, including the Kumul Rebellion, ...