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Is Barbie a Chinese communist sympathizer? GOP lawmakers weigh in
A movie on plastic dolls, not nuclear weapons, has caused political uproar among some conservatives.
By Zamone Perez
Excerpt from ‘The Eagles of Heart Mountain’ by Bradford Pearson
Bradford Pearson's “The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America” is a never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team.
By Bradford Pearson
Excerpt from ‘A Red Line in the Sand’ on the challenges posed by China in the South China Sea and elsewhere
In his upcoming book, David Andelman says the Chinese have shown a most determined effort to enforce their red lines and their declared prerogatives across the South China Sea.
By David Andelman
75 years later, can Asia shake off shackles of the past?
Northeast Asia doesn’t so much repeat history as drag it along like an anchor.
US rejects nearly all Chinese claims in South China Sea
The Trump administration escalated its actions against China on Monday by stepping squarely into one of the most sensitive regional issues dividing them and rejecting outright nearly all of Beijing’s significant maritime claims in the South China Sea.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Advocates: Pentagon failing to communicate dangers of firefighting foam chemicals to troops, families
Groups want widespread testing, monitoring and cleanup of PFAS chemicals, which have leached into the ground and drinking water supplies in some communities.
By Patricia Kime
Guam residents compensated for World War II atrocities decades later
A 1951 peace treaty forgave Japan of the responsibility to pay Guam reparations.
Marking 60th anniversary of defense treaty, Abe vows to boost Japan’s role in US alliance
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Sunday to bolster his country’s role under its security pact with the U.S. in “outer space and cyberspace,” as the allies marked the 60th anniversary of a treaty that has been the basis for their postwar defense alliance.
These Air Corps pilots’ actions at Pearl Harbor made them among the first heroes of World War II
Two heroic American aviators led a spirited defense against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
By Michael E. Haskew
The list of military sites with suspected ‘forever chemicals’ contamination has grown
But the Pentagon did not say where the sites are or the extent of the contamination, if any.
By Patricia Kime