China's decision to hold a military parade on Sept 3 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II is causing the United States a headache. But the Barack Obama administration needs to show courage to send a high-level official delegation to attend the event even at the risk of offending Japan. More importantly, the US should remind itself of its historical role in healing the wartime animosity between China and Japan at a time when relations between them are strained.
The ongoing second phase of the China-Russia annual joint naval exercise in the Peter the Great Gulf, waters off the Clerk Cape and the Sea of Japan has, as usual, triggered speculation that the two neighbors are aiming to form a military alliance, which is the worst form of exaggeration of China-Russia military relations.
Should special amnesty be granted to some convicts to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45)?
TAIWAN'S FORMER LEADER Lee Teng-hui again sought to whitewash Japan's colonization of Taiwan on Sunday, by claiming that the island never "fought" Japanese aggression because it was one nation with Japan.
Have all the efforts Chinese policymakers made to save the once-10-trillion-dollar domestic stock market from falling over the cliff since early July come to nothing with the country's benchmark Shanghai Composite index ending with the sharpest fall since early 2007 on Monday?
CHINESE AUTHOR LIU CIXIN became the first Asian to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, when his novel The Three-Body Problem received this year's award for best science fiction or fantasy achievement. Comments:
The central leadership of the Communist Party of China recently updated its regulation on inspection teams, the full text of which was published by Xinhua News Agency on Aug 13.
In 1993, Japanese politician Ichiro Ozawa first said that transforming Japan into a "normal country" was the way to make it a "real member" of the international community again. The central point of Ozawa's argument for transforming Japan into a "normal country" was to make sure it was treated as equal by other countries, its national power was acknowledged, and the international community saw its pursuit of security and development as normal.
Secular stagnation is looming worldwide, and China is no exception. Globally, the unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus following the 2008 financial crisis has caused debt, equity and property prices to peak, even as trade and investment decline.
Since China will hold activities, including a parade, on Sept 3 to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory in the war against fascism, I went on a one-day tour of Berlin on Saturday to see what World War II means to the German people and returned with respect for the city for facing its past with honesty.
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