ABSTRACT
International armed conflict affected several parts of East Asia. The United States administered southern Korea under military government until independence in August 1948. US Marines deployed within Tientsin in northern China, where were several foreign enclaves, on September 30, 1945, a few weeks after Japanese surrender. In 1946 local Chinese leader Uthman Batur, who generally supported the Republican government, established a military presence in the remote mountains of Peitashan on Mongolia's border. The United States began air and naval action within South Korea at her request June 27. UN forces landed at Inchon behind North Korean lines in September 1950 following loss of Seoul and bitter defensive battles around the far southern port of Pusan. Macao represented a transit point for Chinese international trade, including after the United Nations called for embargo upon trade with China in 1951 during the Korean War.
