President Xi Jinping’s speech marking the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japan in World War II serves as a “wake-up call”, Hong Kong’s finance chief has said, as he laid out how the city is bolstering its role as a “superconnector” amid geopolitical challenges. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday that the…
Ninety-four-year-old Lo King-fai introduced himself as a Hong Kong fighter in the war of resistance when President Xi Jinping shook his hand at the Victory Day military parade in Beijing. “I told President Xi that I was a veteran of the war of resistance from Hong Kong,” he said proudly in an interview with the…
Few people willingly return to their old prison, but 92-year-old Sam Mihara did just that, recently returning to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in rural Wyoming. “Our family suffered a lot,” Mihara told CBS News. He doesn’t want to forget what happened at Heart Mountain. He wants all Americans to remember. “My father went blind,”…
An 18-year-old Navy seaman who was killed aboard a U.S. destroyer during World War II has been accounted for more than 80 years after his death, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Navy Reserve Seaman 2nd Class Jerome M. Mullaney, 18, was assigned to the destroyer USS Glennon in the summer of 1944, the Defense POW/MIA…
Today, China will host a massive military parade along Changan Avenue in central Beijing, showcasing the country’s latest and most advanced weapons to commemorate the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japan in World War II. WATCH LIVE: Beijing marks 80th anniversary of Japan’s WWII surrender WATCH LIVE: Beijing marks 80th anniversary of Japan’s WWII…
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, marking the end of the Sino-Japanese war and the global fight against fascism, we look at the profound changes of the post-war period and how they continue to affect China’s place in the world. Part four of this series examines how the history of Sino-American cooperation has…
China and the US should manage their differences and expand cooperation through “equal dialogue and consultation”, senior Chinese trade negotiator Li Chenggang said during a visit to the United States amid a trade war truce between the two powers. Li wrapped up his three-day visit on Friday after meeting with officials from the US Department…
The first Chinese edition of Red Star Over China, an influential book that gave people in the West an understanding of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party, is on display for the first time in Shanghai as China marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The 1937 book was written by…
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, marking the end of the Sino-Japanese war and the global fight against fascism, we look at the effects of the conflict and its aftermath, and how they continue to affect China’s place in the world. In the third part of a series, the Post looks at Hong…
Hong Kong needs to develop its “geopolitical instincts” to navigate the US-China rivalry amid the broader global shift in power from the West to the East, a former top diplomat from Singapore has said. Kishore Mahbubani, who previously served as Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations and president of the UN Security Council, also…