When Chinese officials and elites berate Japan, as they frequently do these days, they often pointedly mention the atrocities that Imperial Japan committed after invading their country in the 1930s.

Eighty years after the guns fell silent in the Pacific theater of World War II, the region it reshaped continues to remember – and forget – in strikingly different ways. In China, the memory has never ...

From left to right: Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference, Nov. 25, 1943. Our own research on narratives of World War II in Chinese and Russian ...

As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade. Speculation swirls about which world leaders ...

BEIJING — Eight decades after he first came to China, as a U.S. fighter pilot defending against Japanese forces, Harry Moyer is back in the country on a very different mission. Moyer, 103, whose visit ...

Is the world entering a new cold war? Our answer is yes and no. Yes if we mean a protracted international rivalry, for cold wars in this sense are as old as history itself. Some became hot, some ...

Beijing is trying to delegitimise Australia’s security partnership with Japan, once an enemy of both countries, via a new version of World War Two history. For all the smiles and the flurry of ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Airport scanners at office entrances, road closures for large-scale midnight rehearsals, drones banned, guards stationed 24/7 on all overpasses: Beijing has effectively paralysed ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi are expected to travel to China for the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan. On Wednesday, ...

SEOUL, April 25 (Reuters) - South Korea is fighting a battle with China over ancient history using one of the most powerful weapons in its arsenal -- sappy TV dramas watched by hundreds of millions of ...