Jenny Clegg, daughter of Arthur Clegg (an organizer of the China Campaign Committee in the 1930s), and a Vice-president of Society for Anglo-China Understanding (SACU). Photo: interview video screenshot

The International Communication Symposium - In Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was held at Peking University in Beijing on Saturday afternoon.

Jenny Clegg, daughter of Arthur Clegg (an organizer of the China Campaign Committee in the 1930s), and a Vice-president of Society for Anglo-China Understanding (SACU), said in an interview with the Global Times that she thinks that the British and American governments now have a problem of projecting an image that the countries [the UK and the US] won the war, the people that won the war were Roosevelt and Churchill.

"Vast majority of people in my country don't realize that China was an ally, and how important the China's resistance to the Japanese war was for the whole world. We don't understand these things well at all. We're not informed about them, so it's not surprising that we don't understand," Jenny Clegg said, noting that at the time, when the war happened, and people saw how the Japanese were bombing Chinese cities and hitting civilians, people in Britain were very shocked by the way in which war was being carried out. And they really wanted to support the Chinese resistance.

Jenny Clegg further pointed out that although America and Britain during the war did recognize how important China was … But when the war was over and Japan was defeated, then America and Britain and the other colonial powers wanted to get back their influence in the pacific region.

They try to bury the time that the Chinese people and the American people and the British people all fought together against the Japanese, Jenny Clegg said.