Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far cry from the military might the country will display Wednesday in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a major military parade in Beijing on Wednesday marking the 80th anniversary of China's defeat of Japan in World War II with a warning that the world is at a crossroads.

Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a solemn ...

Communist China’s president, Xi Jinping, on the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, on Wednesday will host two of America’s most difficult foes, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un,

There might be tensions with the US today, but China has not forgotten a group of American pilots and support crew. They were hired on contract to help the country fight the mighty Japanese in World War II.

Security measures have been ramped up in Beijing as the city prepares for a major military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and China’s fight against Japan's wartime aggressions.

Yet the legacy of Sino-American partnership is one to mark as Free China, now on Taiwan, launches a defense buildup amid Beijing’s threats.

That parade, which marked 80 years since China's victory over Japan in World War Two, saw Beijing unveiling a range of new military hardware – including a new nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile,