Marco Polo Bridge

70 years ago today, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge incident southwest of Beijing as a pretext to launch of full-scale invasion of China. It also started the 8-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In fact, the Marco Polo Bridge incident also marked the start of World War II, although it would still take a few years before hostilities would commence in Europe.

The Japanese invasion led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin, and at the end of the year 1937 the then capital of China, Nanjing. Nine surviving veterans of the 29th Corps of the Nationalist Army, aged between 87 and 94, commemorated the incident at the bridge, during which more than 5,000 people were killed. (China Daily: A day that pains people even 70 years later)

The event was also commemorated in Taiwan, were presidential hopeful Ma Ying-jeou saluted the soldiers who fought against the Japanese.

One would hope and think that in the 21st century naked aggression of one country against another would finally belong to the past. In World War II, the United States was one of the allies fighting against the Nazi and Japanese aggression. At the beginning of the 21st century, the U.S. attacked and invaded the sovereign country of Iraq under a false pretext to murder its people and rob the country's oil. 70 years ago the Chinese people resisted the Japanese aggressors and finally defeated them. The Iraqi people will do the same with the Americans. Where there is aggression, there is resistance. Nothing can stop it, not even the dictator in the White House.