China will hold a massive military parade on Thursday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the World War 2. Though top officials from about 30 countries are attending the ceremony, Western leaders will be absent. That's because China's contributions to the victory in 1945 are highly undervalued even though it was the first country to enter what later became World War 2. China was an Ally of the U.S. and the UK Rana Mitter, a professor of modern Chinese politics at the University of Oxford, said Tuesday that few in the West remember the fact that China was an ally of the United States and the UK from the Pearl Harbor in 1941 to Japan's surrender in 1945. Mitter said... More