Japan asked countries to skip China's WWII commemorative events in Sept.

TOKYO - The Japanese government asked European and Asian countries to refrain from attending a military parade and other events that China will hold next month to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, diplomatic sources said Sunday.

Japan seeks to prevent China's interpretation of history from spreading, with the parade slated to be held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3 to commemorate what Beijing calls its victory in the 1937-1945 "War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression" and the "World Anti-Fascist War."

According to the sources, Japan conveyed to other nations through its embassies abroad that China's commemorative events have anti-Japanese overtones, and that the participation of leaders should be carefully considered.

Prior to the events, China plans to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit for two days through Sept. 1 in Tianjin near Beijing. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the summit meeting and then the war anniversary events.

When China held a military parade for the 70th anniversary in 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping said postwar generations "should be with correct historical views and take the lessons of history to heart."

The remark came after then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a statement marking the war's end that generations born after the conflict must not become "predestined to apologize."

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said last November he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to foster "mutually beneficial" and "stable" relations when they held their first in-person talks in Peru.

You are most welcome. It is a particular period I have taken interest in, and the question "Who Lost China" (to the Communists) has reverberations to this day.

As you can probably guess, I do not regard Senator Joseph McCarthy to be an evil man as Leftist history paints him, I see him as a hero who should have been venerated for buying us several decades before the Leftists/Communists began anew to make inroads into our society.

Before McCarthy came on the scene, people playing footsie with communist ideology were not viewed in such a negative light...for young people, it was a phase some young people went through when they went to college like the Goth phase or the Punk phase, and they were expected to "grow out of it".

McCarthy made it disreputable.

So, I have read quite a bit about that part of our history, and the book I referenced in my post is absolutely the best one I have read.

If you are interested, I dictated an audiobook of Joseph McCarthy's ghostwritten book "America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall" at Librivox which can be downloaded for free: LINK: rlmorel Books at Librivox and you can select it from the list.

McCarthy took his lumps for attaching his name to that book because George Marshall was still an icon and hero to some for his WWII service, and he says himself in the book that people tried to dissuade him because correlation is not causation, but in my opinion, there are a lot of points McCarthy made that are wholly valid.

Stalin at Yalta promised to declare war on Japan two to three months after the end of the war with Germany. He declared war exactly three months after the defeat of Germany.

Some people have tried to make the case that Truman used the atom bombs to intimidate the Soviets. The Soviet declaration of war does not seem to have been a factor in the emperor's decision to surrender, just the bombs. Because they were a new and more terrible kind of weapon he could save face surrendering under those conditions.

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