Telegrams sent by Soong Tes-ven, foreign minister of the Republic of China (ROC) during World War II, published over the weekend, showed that Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt reached a consensus that Tibet was part of China's territory....
Shortly after his retirement as director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the historian Arnold Toynbee set off on a 17-month voyage around the world...
Renowned academic and economist Richard Sousa admitted he was impressed by Shanghai's size and vibrancy, but, for him, the old Shanghai probably held more charm....
The papers, co-released by the Hoover Institution, under Stanford University of the United States, and Shanghai's Fudan University, comprise archival documents and telegrams from T. V. Soong, the financial minister of the Kuomintang (KMT) prior to 1949....
Three books of historic documents relating to T.V. Soong, one of the highest-ranking Kuomingtang officials in the early 20th century, have been published in the city. Click the following link for information about the T. V. Soong Papers at Hoover.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan, pressing North Korea on Thursday to move quickly on its denuclearization, said the six-party process may be jeopardized unless there is progress by August....
North Korea will refuse any international effort to purge the world of nuclear weapons. But Shultz reasons that the U.S. and its closest allies can lean on China and Japan to keep North Korea in check....
