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  History of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute:  During the past half year a territorial dispute between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands (called Diaoyu Islands by the Chinese and Senkaku Islands by the Japanese) in the South China Sea has increased significantly in intensity so that both sides have sent military [...]

One of the most horrific atrocities committed in human history was the Nanking Massacre.  During a six-week period beginning on December 13, 1937 in Nanking, the then capital of China, the Japanese Imperial Army slaughtered approximately 300,000 Chinese (most were civilians, including women and children) and raped approximately 20,000 women and girls (including great grandmothers [...]

By adopting an ambiguous and internally inconsistent policy toward the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu Islands/Senkaku Islands between China and Japan (former name used by China and latter name used by Japan), U.S. government leaders may be dragging the U.S. into a war in Asia that it has no moral or legal reasons to be [...]

The question of human rights has always been, and especially in recent months, an issue in discussion about China and the U.S.  On the surface, the issue may appear to be pretty straight forward, in the sense that China, in comparison with the U.S., significantly lags behind on the issue of human rights, and it [...]