Not even Hollywood could have written it better. The 7,500-ft. mountain over there that the Japs hold is called Huilungshan and it is on the border of China. On the other side is Burma.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan ...

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