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PRC China played a very small part in WWII. The United States ended the Japanese Empire with nuclear weapons while China was a divided side-show. The idea that Trump would celebrate such an anniversary in Beijing would send a signal that China was somehow extra important in that conflict, which is just not true, despite the propaganda pumped out of New China.

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Cory Buott (Ijiraq)'s avatar

Sorry I minxed together events! That generals call for nukes was in 1950-53 range. I can't recall when Chinese troops entered the peninsula but it was during that time. This is when that general asked to nuke. In 1958 America considered it again, to halt development... I'm a Communist not great on history 🤷

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Cory Buott (Ijiraq)'s avatar

Any help China got was purely strategic, imo

This became crystal clear in 1949 when Respected Comrade Mao came into power. From this era onward, America was trying to find excuses to use nuclear bombs in China to halt its alarming rate of development, which was already a well established threat by the early 50s. By 1958, that general MacGregor(?) was asking to use approximately 38 nuclear weapons on both Korea and China, following the troop-backrd Chinese demands that all foreign forces leave the peninsula...

America is no friend of anything that challenges it's Primacy, imperial conquest, or spreading socioeconomic syste m (Americanism). The only reason it would show up for something like this would be a subversive one. The confrontation between human centric systems and capital centric systems is coming to head very soon. I hope that China protects its dams and has a plan for the consequences of dams being targeted covertly or overtly. This is the state of the world today.

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Geoff Fischer's avatar

As I understand it, the United States gave support to the Kuomintang during World War II, but if it gave any to the Chinese people under the leadership of Mao Zedong, it would have been very little.

Please correct me if I am wrong. It is for China to decide who it invites to celebrate the victory over Japan, but Donald Trump is a dangerous man who is a threat to world peace and stability, a thug, a bully and a murderer. Why would China wish him to be present at such a solemn occasion?

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John Lee's avatar

"Jin Canrong claims Xi, Trump, and Putin together would 'inject a force of peace and stability" into the world." Does the Chinese foreign policy establishment really believe these horse manure statements? I am left shaking my head at the ridiculousness of what I read out of the Chinese foreign policy establishment.

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