Beijing claims a role as shaper of the postwar Pacific order
The history of World War II has become the latest front line between Washington and Beijing, as China asserts its role as a victor and traditional hegemon in the Pacific.
As strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies, a new dimension of conflicting views is opening up among scholars, historians and strategic analysts in Washington and Beijing.
This is the opposing views of China and America on World War II and the meaning for each. A crescendo of interpretation in new books, articles and various arms of propaganda will recount these differences all the way to the centenary in 2039 of the beginning of the European war and the preceding years when China remembers its lonely struggle against Japan.
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James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.
