The story behind the July 1937 Lugou Bridge fight

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Eighty-two years ago today, on July 7, 1937, Japanese troops crossed the Lugou Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing in a major military campaign against China. The "Lugou Bridge Incident" led to the full-scale Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.