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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — A think tank report released Friday confirmed that the Chinese theater was the main battlefield in the East during the World Anti-Fascist War 80 years ago.
The report, titled “Historical Retrospect, Upholding Justice – The Great Contribution of the Main Theater of War in the East to the World Anti-Fascist War,” was published in Chinese and English by the Xinhua Institute, a think tank affiliated with the news agency of the same name.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
In the expansionist plans of Japanese fascism, China was the main target for conquest. For this reason, China was the first to be attacked by Japan and suffered more than other countries. The Chinese people were also the first and most resolute to resist, thus initiating the World Anti-Fascist War and opening the first large-scale theater of war for the anti-fascist struggle in the world, the report says.
According to the report, the Chinese theater of military operations had for a long time contained and resisted the main forces of Japanese militarism, delaying and preventing not only its “northward advance” toward the Soviet Union, but also its “southward advance” toward the Pacific Ocean. This strategic containment limited and thwarted the plans for coordination between the Japanese and German fascists, playing a decisive role in the final defeat of the Japanese invaders.
From the Lugou Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, until Japan's surrender in 1945, Chinese forces killed more than 1.5 million Japanese troops, accounting for more than 70 percent of Japan's total military losses in World War II.
After wars broke out in Europe and the Pacific, more than 20 countries and regions across Europe, Asia and Africa were subjected to fascist invasion.
China not only resisted Japan's attempts to destroy China, but also provided strategic assistance to the Allied war effort and coordinated strategic operations in both the European and Pacific theaters, the report said.
At the same time, China, as an important rear base for the allies in the Asia-Pacific region for conducting military operations against Japan, provided the allied countries with a huge amount of strategic materials and intelligence data, thereby directly supporting their operations and providing them with critical time, the report says.
In recent years, Xinhua Institute has been conducting forward-looking, strategic and preparatory research on major domestic and global issues, resulting in numerous think tank research results with wide influence. -0-
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