In mid-1945, as Allied forces pushed toward victory in the Pacific, American political leaders faced a deepening dilemma. They could continue to work with both Mao Zedong’s Communist insurgents and ...

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China was boiling and popping with revolt last week. But China is mercifully vast. Centres of slaughter and pillage, rapine and rascality were strewn hundreds, thousands of miles apart. And firm in ...

North Korea has announced that its late leader, Kim Jong Il, has been bestowed the title of generalissimo. North Korea's state media says the Supreme People's Assembly, the central military commission ...

The bodies of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and his son and successor, former president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), which lie embalmed in temporary mausoleums in ...

The announcement that Kim had been posthumously appointed “Generalissimo” came a day after a statue of the former strongman was unveiled in Pyongyang, showing him on horseback alongside his own father ...