WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 17 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 17, 2019
1941: Chiang Kai-shek orders the New Fouth Army (South China communists forces integrated in national army to fight the Japanese) to be disbanded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Fourth_Army_Incident
1941: During the French-Thai war (1940-1941), naval Battle of Koh Chang
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1948: Agreement of Renville regarding the future or the Indonesia United states modifying the November 1946 agreement in favor of Netherlands
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Renville+Agreement
http://www.houseofdavid.ca/renville.htm
1951: China refuses cease-fire in Korea
1951: After suffering repeated human wave and suicide attacks, napalm drops help the French to defeat Vo Nguyen Giap’s troops and to hold the area around Vinh-Yen
1964: Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia agree for a cease-fire and a Foreign ministers conference in Bangkok
1964: Soviet Union asks for a conference on the neutrality of Cambodia
1972: President Richard Nixon warns South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that his refusal to sign any negotiated peace agreement would render it impossible to continue assistance to South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-threatens-president-thieu
1983: Resumption of the United Nations good offices mission, lead by Diego Cordovez, for an honoured political solution of Afghan conflit
2004: The first Japanese soldiers leave for Irak. Since 1945, it is the first time that Japanese troop are send in a country on war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Iraq_Reconstruction_and_Support_Group
2009: The North Korean military declared an “all-out confrontational posture” against South Korea as an American scholar said he was told by officials in North Korea that it had “weaponized” 30.8 kilograms of plutonium
2012: Vietnam’s navy has taken delivery of its first locally-made warship, equipped with artillery and missile systems, local media report
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16590100
2014: A senior IMF official and four UN employees were among 21 people killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on a restaurant in Kabul
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25791002