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  On July 14-27, 2017, a group of 17 people participated in a two-week immersion program to study WWII history in Asia.  Ten are from the U.S., six are from Canada, and one is a Canadian citizen currently living in Hong Kong.  WWII history in Asia is seldom taught in American or Canadian high schools […]

More than 70 years have elapsed since the end of WWII during which the Japanese military committed massive and inhumane atrocities all over Asia, especially in China.  These atrocities included the Nanking Massacre, Comfort Women (CW, or sexual slavery), Biological and Chemical Warfare (BCW), Vivisection on live people (including American POWs), and Slave Labor. Yet […]

The “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) initiative first announced to the world in the fall of 2013 by President Xi Jinping of China is an extremely ambitious and far-reaching initiative that is not easy to achieve, but has significant potential impacts improving the social and economic structure of a major part of the world around […]

Who Was Anson Burlingame?  Anson Burlingame, a name of which most people have probably never heard, was a unique diplomat. He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the U.S.’ Ambassador to China [1] in 1861-1867. Then, China appointed him as China’s Ambassador [2] to All the Treaty Powers, including the U.S., in 1867-1870, when […]