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| Film Battle of Chosin Reservoir continues to lead in China |
| 2021-10-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The historical epic "The Battle of Choxing Reservoir" continued to dominate the box office in mainland China on October 5, data from China Movie Data showed, Xinhua reported. The film, co-directed by Chen Kaige , Hark Tsui and Dante Lam , finished its sixth day of screening with over 487 million yuan (about $ 75.1 million) in gross, bringing its total profit to nearly 2.5 billion yuan. The film is set during the Korean War and the repulsion of the US aggression in the framework of China's aid to Korea (1950-1953). The film stars Wu Jing and Jackson Yi . The film tells the story of Chinese Volunteer People's Soldiers fighting bravely in cold temperatures in a key campaign at Lake Changjin, or Choxin Reservoir. It was followed by the patriotic anthology “Me and My Parents' Generation,” which came in second with a daily gross of around RMB 126 million. The Chinese children's film Little Canned Man earned 5.85 million yuan on the same day, finishing in third place. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 A good chunk of CPVF's successes hinged on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's refusal to believe what his own intelligence was telling him. This man may have fed the Chinese significant amounts of intel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wu-tai_Chin Funny thing is that his motivation was said to be the same as Aldrich Ames's - money. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2021-10-07 18:42 |
| #3 the CCP's statement that China would defend her borders only Look up Chinese definition of China's borders. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-10-07 02:36 |
| #2 Mao used the war to dispose of his unreliable divisions inherited from the Nationalists. |
| Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-07 01:24 |
| #1 It should be noted that Mao's incursion into North Korea was in direct contravention to the CCP's statement that China would defend her borders only. A good chunk of CPVF's successes hinged on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's refusal to believe what his own intelligence was telling him. In short: the dog caught the car. |
| Posted by: badanov 2021-10-07 00:47 |