Dhaka, Sept. 12 -- Standing on top of Tiananmen Gate, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that his great nation now feared no one. What followed his declaration was a spectacular military parade to mark the end of World War II in Asia in 1945, when China repelled Imperial Japanese invasion and occupation on the Eastern Front and allowed European powers to consolidate their victory over Nazi Germany on the Western Front so that anti-Fascist forces could triumph together globally. Actually, it needs to be remembered that World War II began in Asia long before it did in Europe: in 1937 with the Second Sino-Japanese War, before the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Indeed, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 set the stage for what would...