Chinese V-Day Ceremony Begins with 70-Gun Salute
A flag-raising ceremony and a 70-gun salute opened a grand ceremony held at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing on Thursday morning to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the world anti-Fascist war.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, together with 24 heads of state and government, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye and South African President Jacob Zuma, stood on the Tian'anmen Rostrum overlooking the packed square.
Other dignitaries on the rostrum were government representatives from 19 countries, heads of 10 international organizations, including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and six former world leaders, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama.
At 10:00, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced the beginning of the ceremony.
The ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the world anti-Fascist war now begins, announced Li.
The 70-gun salute was fired by 56 guns placed in the southern part of the square. The number of 56 represents 56 ethnic groups of China.
The gun salute ceremony was performed by the Gun Salute Battalion of the People's Armed Police Force Beijing Contingent, who served several National Day celebrations as well as the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.
Amid the 70-gun salute, the guard of honor carrying a furled national flag walked down from the platform of the Monument to the People's Heroes in the center of the square, and marched northward on a red carpet toward the national flag post.
While the five-star flag was being hoisted, the crowd sang the national anthem to the accompaniment of a 1,200-member military band and a 1,200-member choir.
A total of 12,000 troops, 500 pieces of military equipment, and nearly 200 aircraft will be reviewed by President Xi Jinping in the coming hour.
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Anniversary of the 9/18 Incident: Memorial ceremony held in Changchun
Monday marks the 86th Anniversary of the 9/18 Incident, which marked the beginning of Japan's aggressive war against of China in 1931. People gathered in Changchun, northeastern Jilin Province, to remember the event.
On September 18, 1931, Japanese troops blew up a railway line near the city of Shenyang, but framed up the Chinese army of being behind it. The Japanese army then launched sudden attacks on a main Chinese army barracks in the city and eventually occupied the whole of northeast China.
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Korean War: Propaganda in South Korea, China, and Japan
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San Francisco's homage to 'comfort women'
San Francisco plans to erect statues of 'comfort women' as grim reminders of the terrible fate of sex slaves under Japan's wartime aggression. On Monday, the San Francisco Arts Commission gave the final approval to a planned memorial to the sex slaves, which will be placed in the city's Chinatown. Statues of four women will be placed in September, representing those who were forced into sex slavery. Japan strongly lobbied against the plan, but Tokyo's opposition fell short in the face of anger over the fate of war-era sex slaves. Are these statues a forceful reminder of a past that wartime aggressors simply want to forget? Or are they a warning to future generations of the horrors of war? The answers from Joseph Yi of Seoul's Hanyang University and Kurt Piehler from Florida State University.
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Chinese legislative chairman, Li Peng, continues official visit
13 September 2002
1. Wide shot of Chinese Premier Li Peng at Rizal Park for wreath-laying ceremony
2. Close-up Li Peng
3. wide shot of cameramen
4. Rizal monument
5. Li Peng and honor guards laying wreath at foot of monument
6. Chinese flags
7. Li Peng fixing wreath
8. Police officers
9. Various shots of rifle salute
10. Wide shot of Li Peng in front of monument
11. Medium shot Li Peng
10 Chinese flag burning, pan to protesters
11. Wide shot protest
12. Banner reading We are at war with Red China
13. Protest leader speaking on megaphone
14. Wide shot protesters chanting Chinese Out!
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ely Pamatong, anti-Chinese protester
We do not welcome Li Peng. We object to his presence in the Philippines. He is the Saddam Hussein of Asia, Deng Xiaoping is the Saddam Hussein of Asia. They're invading our Spratlys and therefore the free world should come to our rescue to drive the Chinese out of the Philippines territory.
12 September 2002
16. Wide shot of Air China plane on tarmac
17. Li Peng emerging from plane staircase, met by Philippines House Speaker Jose de Venecia.
18. Women in traditional Chinese dress, waving Chinese flags and chanting Welcome in Mandarin
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Chinese legislature chairman Li Peng continued his visit to the Philippines capital, Manila, on Friday.
In the morning, he placed a wreath at the foot of the monument to national hero Jose Rizal.
Li Peng is visiting the islands at the invitation of the Philippines' speaker of the House of Representatives, Jose de Venecia.
Li is scheduled to meet President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Saturday, as well as de Venecia and other congressmen.
During his stay, Li is to discuss proposed Chinese government assistance worth 100 (m) million US dollars to help modernise agriculture and fisheries in the Philippines, including a project to develop better rice seeds.
He is also expected to announce Chinese help in modernising an old commuter and cargo railway system in the northern Philippines.
Li arrived in Manila on Thursday, with his wife and about 170 delegates, to a red carpet welcome by lines of women in traditional garb chanting welcome in Mandarin Chinese.
He will stay until Sunday before flying to Australia.
But not everyone is happy with his visit.
About 50 protesters staged a rally near Rizal's monument in Manila to tell Li that he is not welcome in the Philippines.
The protesters denounced what they called the Chinese invasion of the Spratlys - disputed islands in the South China Sea.
The islands are being claimed in part or in whole by the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
China has built some structures in some parts of the Spratlys.
Chinese and Philippine officials are also trying to hasten the release of 122 Chinese fishermen who have pleaded guilty to charges of illegal entry and illegal fishing in Philippine waters.
The fishermen, arrested separately over the past six months, are being held in jail in Palawan province, southwest of Manila.
The waters west of Palawan, where many Chinese fishermen have been apprehended, are part of the South China Sea, which include the disputed Spratly islands.
Li is also expected to discuss the plight of 180-thousand Filipino workers in Macau and Hong Kong.
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【小记者专题报道】小记者访华团参观中国人民抗日战争纪念馆
8月19日，2015侨报小记者一行前往北京中国人民抗日战争纪念馆和卢沟桥参观。由于正值中国纪念抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年，此次的参观活动也显得更加有意义。
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On Oct. 12th a 90-year-old woman Yin Yulin, from Zheng
jia Zhai, Yangqu County, Taiyuan city, Shanxi Province, died.
The old woman's death was regrettable as she was arrested by the
Japanese army to act as comfort women during Japan invading China.
From 1992, she and other fifteen female victims come forward
to prosecute the Japanese government.
They accused the Japanese army of bestial crimes.
However, the Japanese court gave no compensation.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stood by as its own
Citizens made efforts to pursue justice.
In the spring of 1942, the Japanese officers and soldiers broke
into Yin Yulin's home in the Yu country, Shanxi provinces.
They arrested her and her sister together.
The two sisters were gang-raped by the Japanese soldiers.
The two sisters and other women who were caught were often
forced with bayonets to the towers to act as comfort women.
This lasted more than a year.
Known as the first person of Chinese Folk comfort women
investigation Zhang Shuangbing told NTDTV that he had surveyed more than 100 Chinese comfort women.
From 1992, in 10 years, there were three batches of 16 female
victims prosecuting the Japanese government in Japanese courts.
Through three courts, the case was sentenced in 2007.
Teacher in Shanxi Province, Zhang Shuangbing: In the end,
the Japanese court's decision admitted that the comfort women stories were true,
but offered no compensation. We didn't think
it was a proper judgment, while being a barbaric judgment.
It not only can't convince the victims and their families,
but also can't convince the suffering people.
The Japanese courts pronounced no compensation
because statutory limitations had passed.
The individual weren't allowed prosecuting the government.
Zhang Shuangbing: On the statute of limitations-because
after the war, China and Japan were in a Cold War---
they did not set up diplomatic relations
so there are no conditions to prosecute.
Also, as private citizens can't prosecute the government, we
think, since the Japanese government commanded the invasion of China,
why your government can bully people, but the people
are not allowed to prosecute Japanese government?
Two Japanese non-governmental organizations, Japan Shanxi
Identify Committee and Japan Photo Exhibition Committee sent a telegram of condolences to Yin Yulin.
They said: Aunt's wish to get 'the Japanese government's
formal apology and compensation, to restore the reputation'
before her death failed to achieve this and we feel very guilty.
After Yin Yulin death, in Shanxi, only six comfort women
living witnesses remained.
While comfort women are seeking Japanese government
compensation, the CCP remained silent.
They didn't make representations to the Japanese government.
The Chinese folk Diaoyu Islands Federation members Feng
Jinghua said he could not understand the practice of the CCP.
Diaoyu personage Feng Jinghua: Why does China not do
these things? We are also very puzzled, we are very depressed.
We also hope that the relevant state departments
pay attention to this matter.
The victims are involved very widely, once it is mentioned
Along with such issues as labor, the chemical weapons issue,
the comfort women issue, then some people might think
that it will destroy Sino-Japanese relations and Sino-Japanese friendship.
Feng Jinghua said that every year, Diaoyu personage visit
the old people, but their number decreased every year.
In their view, the CCP and the Japanese government
hope these people to die as soon as possible.
They regard those people as a burden, especially the CCP.
They are blindly waiting, watching them silently die. They have
no living benefits such as pension and medical relief, either.
Feng jinghua: When we denounced the Japanese,
we should reflect on our Chinese people ourselves.
Why have we Chinese victims lived so miserably?
Why have Japanese victimizer lived so well?
I also have seen the Japanese soldiers, including victims
of the Hiroshima bomb; the Japanese government took good care of them.
But how are our Chinese victims treated? These old people
have no health insurance, no other insurance.
This is the result of our current social situation in China.
By contrast, on Oct.1st, for the first time, the South Korean
government proposed the issue of comfort women in the keynote speech of the General Assembly of the U.N.
On Aug. 30th the Korean Constitutional Tribunal claimed
judgment on the issue of former comfort women prosecuting the government for compensation.
The judgment pronounced that the Government violated
relevant provisions of the Constitution and
no serious negotiations with the Japanese government
in dealing with the former comfort women.
Subsequently, the South Korean government asked
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中国人民抗日战争纪念馆接受旅美作家招思虹捐赠藏品
招思虹女士向中国人民抗日战争纪念馆捐赠藏品国际在线消息（记者 李琳）：“反抗法西斯战争的历史中，不仅有中国人的血泪，也有世界人民的奉献，我来的任务就是为各家的珍藏找到一个好归宿。”美国华人收藏协会秘书长、作家招思虹21日在接受记者采访时如是说。旅美作家招思虹21日携26件反映中国及世界人民抗日战争时期的文献文物抵达北京，为中国人民抗日战争纪念馆再添馆藏精品，其中包括了大量的华侨支援祖国抗战的一手文献。这是招思虹向中国人民抗日战争纪念馆第六次捐赠文物。 招思虹认为，一件件抗战的历史文献文物串联起来的，是包括华侨华人、归侨侨眷在内的中国人民顽强抗战的历程，同时也展示了包括中国人民在内的世界人民对抗日战争做出的重要贡献。据了解，此次招思虹带回的文物中，既有八国联军美国部队侵华入侵天津的《安民告示》，欢送国民革命军第十师陈市长如真率队北伐纪念合影彩印件，《广源轮案》湾区华人抗战胜利70周年特刊等反应中国人民抗战的历史资料，也有美国发行的抗战五周年纪念邮票，1944年二战游轮铜版画，证明钓鱼岛属于中国的1941年版美国兰德公司出版地图册等珍贵文物。自2008年至今，招思虹及其金山之路读者团队、个人已累计向中国人民抗日战争纪念馆累计捐赠文物数百件。招思虹表示，博物馆才是文物的最好归宿，不仅让文物得到良好的保护，还让国人真正了解到珍稀文献文物的历史和细节，“捐赠者也会为自身的善举而感到欣慰。”招思虹女士向中国人民抗日战争纪念馆捐赠藏品美国发行的抗战五周年纪念邮票
证明钓鱼岛属于中国的1941年版美国兰德公司出版地图册及美军反法西斯战争纪念勋章海外发行的反法西斯战争珍贵文献海外发行的反法西斯战争珍贵文献
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Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image.
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Chiang Kai-shek (; 31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Generalissimo Chiang or Chiang Chungcheng and romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi, was a politician and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in exile in Taiwan. He was recognized by much of the world as the head of the legitimate government of China until the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, as well as a close ally of Sun Yat-sen's. Chiang became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT following the Canton Coup in early 1926. Having neutralized the party's left wing, Chiang then led Sun's long-postponed Northern Expedition, conquering or reaching accommodations with China's many warlords.From 1928 to 1948, Chiang served as chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China (ROC). Chiang was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement. Unable to maintain Sun's good relations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chiang purged them in a massacre at Shanghai and repressed uprisings at Kwangtung (Canton region) and elsewhere.
At the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which later became the Chinese theater of World War II, Manchurian warlord Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang and obliged him to establish a Second United Front with the CCP. After the defeat of the Japanese, the American-sponsored Marshall Mission, an attempt to negotiate a coalition government, failed in 1946. The Chinese Civil War resumed, with the CCP led by Mao Zedong defeating the KMT and declaring the People's Republic of China in 1949. Chiang's government and army retreated to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted critics in a period known as the White Terror. After evacuating to Taiwan, Chiang's government continued to declare its intention to retake mainland China. Chiang ruled Taiwan securely as President of the Republic of China and General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975, just one year before Mao's death.Like Mao, Chiang is regarded as a controversial figure. Supporters credit him with playing a major part in the Allied victory of World War II and unifying the nation and a national figure of the Chinese resistance against Japan as well as his staunch anti-Soviet and anti-communist stance. Detractors and critics denounce him as a dictator at the front of an authoritarian autocracy who suppressed and purged opponents and critics and arbitrarily incarcerated those he deemed as opposing to the Kuomintang among others.
Poland Marks 70th Anniversary of End of WWII
Poland marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II (WWII) on Thursday midnight (local time) with a ceremony on the Westerplatte Peninsula in Gdansk.
Among those present at the ceremony were Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, European Council President Donald Tusk, who is Polish, and the presidents of Ukraine and several Central European countries.
Half an hour before the ceremony started, blue light beams illuminated a monument to the Polish defenders of Westerplatte to the playing of the Polish national anthem and a gun salute. Polish soldiers laid wreaths and singers sang songs in memory of the deceased soldiers.
A participant at the ceremony said the celebration is actually a lesson, which united all people and took them to the beginning of WWII and gathered necessary information about the place.
The Westerplatte peninsula is considered to be a place that witnessed the first battle of WWII in 1939. Exactly 70 years after Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, Poland continues to hold grand event to remember the soldiers' sufferings and celebrate the victory.
In the Red Square in Russian capital Moscow, another ceremony will be held on Saturday. Many heads of state and politicians have been invited to the ceremony, including Ban Ki-moon and Chinese President Xi Jinping. More on:
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