China, Japan and Taiwan
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BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a solemn ceremony on Aug. 15, the day then-Emperor ...
From left: Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference, Nov. 25, 1943. Credit: U.S. National Archives World War II casts a very long shadow in East Asia.
From China’s point of view, the Japanese Prime Minister’s remarks on Taiwan test a red line - a trigger that sets this dispute apart from past flare-ups, analysts say.
Less than a month into her term, Japan's conservative leader has stirred tensions with China by suggesting a Chinese move against Taiwan could prompt a Japanese military response.