Xi Wages ‘Memory War’ on China’s WWII History With Eye on Taiwan

Outside a rain swept mountaintop museum where Chinese forces fought a key battle against Japan in 1940, footage of President Xi Jinping last month blared out of a giant television.

The video from his July visit to Yangquan in Shanxi province, shows the nation’s top leader telling students assembled at the exhibition how “the Communist Party of China was the backbone of the nation’s war of resistance” against Japan.