Memories of the historic July 7th Incident echo 89 years on
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The July 7th Incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge Incident, which occurred in 1937, is recognized as the start of Japan’s full-scale invasion of China, and China’s whole-of-nation resistance against Japanese aggression.
The crisis awakened the Chinese nation. People set aside whatever rifts they had and pointed their guns, blades, and anything they could wield outward, fighting uncompromisingly until Japan’s surrender in 1945. Over the past decades, the land has changed beyond recognition. Cities have risen, borders have shifted, and generations have come and gone. Yet, the Chinese people have preserved Wanping, the old walled town, much as it was, with its shell-scarred walls standing quietly as witnesses to the past.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
