Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Flag Duration Use Description 1 July 1997 – present: Flag of Hong Kong [2]: A white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana on a red field with 1 star on each of the petals. The Chinese name of Bauhinia × blakeana has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 yáng means "foreign" in Chinese, and this would be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government), although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to ...
Flag of Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army before January 1934. In the summer of 1926, the CCP took over the two divisions of the Chinese Nationalist Party forces and led a military mutiny. Nationalist forces General He Long commanded the 20th Corps to join them. They had a total of 20,000 soldiers and planned to occupy Guangzhou. However ...
The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; 國民革命軍), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army (革命軍) before 1928, and as National Army (國軍) after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China during the Republican era.
PLA flag during Nixon's visit to China. The flag of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the war flag of the People's Liberation Army; the layout of the flag has a golden star at the top left corner and two Chinese characters "八一" to the right of the star, placed on a red field.
The design features one large star, with four smaller stars in an arc set off towards the fly. It has been the national flag of China since the foundation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949. The flag was designed by Zeng Liansong. The red represents the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Chinese American veterans who fought in World War II were honored in New Orleans with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony. Chinese American WWII vets who served despite being denied U.S ...
The recorded military history of China extends from about 2200 BC to the present day. This history can be divided into the military history of China before 1912 , when a revolution overthrew the imperial state, and the period of the Republic of China Army and the People's Liberation Army .
China on Monday honored two American veterans of World War II as Washington and Beijing look to past collaboration for inspiration on improving today's strained ties. Mel McMullen, who is in his ...