![]() This week, China is celebrating, with massive fanfare, the 70 th anniversary of its intervention in what it calls “The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.” ![]() China, the sleeping dragon, had not just awoken – it had dug is claws deeply into the path to superpower status. ![]() By the end of the year, the Chinese peasant soldiers had routed their enemies, saved their ally from national extinction and overturned a century of military defeats at the hand of foreign powers.Ī historical corner had turned. In October 1950, the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army, or CPVA, and the US-led United Nations Command, or UNC, clashed in the freezing high country of North Korea. Under-armed, under-equipped and shouldering a dismal heritage of military humiliation, they advanced, by the hundreds of thousands, into a desolate, forbidding battlespace to challenge the most powerful military force on earth.
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