China is celebrating 70 years since it entered the Korean war
Its rulers portray the conflict as a Chinese victory against the West
AN OPTIMIST MIGHT call it progress that China’s national memorial to the Korean war, newly reopened after years of renovations, has reduced the space devoted to a Mao-era hoax—the charge that America used the plague and cholera as bio-weapons during that conflict, thereby committing a war crime.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “When China fought America”
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