Chinese President Xi Jinping has hailed the second world war American general Joseph Stilwell as an “old friend” of the nation in a letter to his grandson, according to state news agency Xinhua.

Marshall, the Army’s 34th most senior general, to Army chief of ... work of history with me in it,” Joseph Stilwell wrote years before World War II. At the time, he could not have imagined ...

But during World War II, the U.S. and China were allies ... in the Chinese city of Chongqing dedicated to the American General Joseph Stilwell. Known as Vinegar Joe, for his harsh personality ...

met members of the family of Joseph Stilwell in the southwestern city on Wednesday. The group included Susan Cole and Nancy Millward, the great-granddaughters of the general who was based in the ...

A museum in the Chinese city of Chongqing is dedicated to U.S. Gen ... harsh personality, Stilwell was the U.S. commander of the China Burma India Theater in World War II. The U.S. ambassador ...