Trump’s pledge to push the boundary of the US 2000 kilometres north channels 300 years of imperial rivalries over resources.

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President Franklin Roosevelt secretly signed an executive order in early April 1942 that allowed American aviators to join Claire Chennault’s volunteers.

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Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

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YORKSHIRE-based author Paul Chrystal’s book Old Bradford contains many fascinating ... over rival imperial claims on Manchuria and Korea. Continuing the oriental theme, a perfect avenue of ...

In the bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen ... was much too delicate to be mentioned at all. Only 28 years old, Henry Pu Yi is no stranger to thrones. Twice before has ...

1923 – Old-age pension laws were enacted in the states of Montana and Nevada ... 1946 – The U.S. sent protests to the U.S.S.R. on incursions into Manchuria and Iran. 1953 – Soviet dictator Joseph ...

The Dongbei cultural movement in the field of standup comedy seems to have attempted to transform the old-style dialect humour based on regional stereotypes into dark humour and social commentary that ...