The Cold War Never Ended in Asia

... the Soviet Union. More knowledgeable or more educated Russian would probably argue that WW2 was in fact unleashed two years earlier, on the 1 st of September, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Of course, if you take the Asian perspective, the WW2 chronology looks very different: Japan launched the large-scale invasion of China on July 7, 1937, while the first Japanese attacks against China, that was torn apart by a protracted civil war, go back to as early as 1931. Likewise, we usually emphasize the scale the losses of human lives particularly in Europe. However, in terms ...