Second world war Quote by Gordon G. Chang

I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.

— Jiang Wen

“He considered China’s interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a…

— Donald Keene

“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians in China…

— A.G. Riddle

“The Chinese death-toll in the chaotic fighting of the Second World War has been estimated at around twenty million, outstripping by far every other…

— Andrew Marr

“China is traditionally Vietnam’s enemy. [Vietnam] had been kicking [invaders] out for millennia. And we were just the latest.”

— Mark Bowden

“Responding to these pressures from the Right, Eisenhower had announced that the United States would remove its Seventh Fleet from the straits between Taiwan…

— James T. Patterson

“This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.”

— Patrick Mendis

“At the end of World War II, American military policy, digesting the Japanese lessons in China, was to control air and sea lanes throughout…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

“The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their…

— Anne Fadiman

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

— Jackie Chan

Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times…

— Mao Zedong

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

— L. Ron Hubbard