China and US squaring off for a conflict

IN 1950, the armies of Mao Tse- tung stunned the world by intervening in the Korean War. In winter that year, the Chinese achieved a stunning surprise by driving the American interlopers hundreds of miles south before they themselves were pushed back. Eventually a front was stabilised and the situation sank into stalemate. Three years later, the United States was thankful to get out of its unwanted war with China by accepting a compromise peace, along the armistice line which still divides the two Koreas today.

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