Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind the familiar history of World War II lies a forgotten front, lined with unsung heroes in the battlefields of China whose ...

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 ...

History in East Asia is never just history. It is weaponized, re-scripted, and deeply entangled in present-day struggles for legitimacy, identity, and power. Eighty years after the guns fell silent in ...

SHENYANG, China — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far cry ...

The conflicting war narratives from Communist China, pro-unification Nationalists in Taiwan, and those seeking Taiwan’s independence have been present since the end of World War II. From left: Chinese ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...