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Chinese Stalingrad: Battle of Shanghai

The city burned for three brutal months. In 1937, China made a stand in Shanghai - facing the full fury of the Imperial ...
What’s the best way to celebrate Thanksgiving? Listening to a 20-minute protest song about the Vietnam War, of course. If you ...
Chinese president Xi Jinping told US president Donald Trump during a phone call yesterday that Taiwan’s “return to China” is a key part of the post-war international order, state news agency Xinhua ...
Actor Farhan Akhtar hopes his war drama `120 Bahadur`, about the 1962 India-China war, gets tax-free status for wider ...
After a German U-boat sinks a Canadian freighter in the early months of World War II, a raiding party comes ashore to secure supplies… only for the U-boat to get sunk in their absence. Left to their ...
Despite being one of the largest and most important export partners for the US, second only to Mexico and Canada, tensions between the United States and China have remained at a heightened level. The ...
Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...
China urged Cambodia and Thailand to end their border war in July. But weeks earlier, it had sent rockets and artillery shells to Cambodia, Thai intelligence documents show. By Sui-Lee Wee Sui-Lee Wee ...
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🔥 This is premium content and also appeared in the Weibo Watch newsletter. Subscribe to stay in the loop. How did Evil Unbound (731), one of the most anticipated Chinese war movies of 2025, go from ...
The Trump administration has denied any support for Chinese peacekeepers in a hypothetical demilitarized zone as proposed in peace talks with Ukraine and Russia as the three nations continue to seek a ...
For many, the term “pidgin English” evokes awkward, broken speech — an ungainly linguistic legacy that is neither “pure” English nor standard in any sense. In Shanghai, however, its local incarnation, ...