Call goes out for greater communication and cooperation to acknowledge pivotal roles of China, India, Russia and Southeast Asian countries
In the run-up to Wednesday’s grand military parade in Beijing to commemorate the end of World War II, China has stepped up calls to confront what mainland academics have described as Western “historical nihilism” in the predominant account of the war.
“By reshaping the global narrative of the anti-fascist war through a Western-centric lens, downplaying the strategic value of the Eastern theatre, exaggerating Western contributions and reconstructing historical evaluation standards based on present-day political needs, a grave challenge has been posed to the collective memory of World War II,” according to Liu Bensen, a professor at Shandong Normal University.
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