History has become the latest battlefront between Beijing and Washington after a sharp rise in nationalism and anti-American sentiment around the 70th anniversary of China entering the Korean war.
The three years of conflict on the Korean peninsula, beginning with North Korea invading the South in June 1950 and ending in July 1953 with an armistice, are a central plank of the People’s Republic of China’s founding mythology.
Unlike in the US, where the conflict is sometimes referred to as the “forgotten war”, China regularly celebrates the “war to resist American aggression and aid [North] Korea” with great fanfare.
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