The difference between Japan in the 30s and China today is that Japan didn’t have an empire while China does now. The Chicom’s foreing policy efforts are thus largely aimed at keeping their empire together which they are attempting to do by stirring up anger against outsiders such as the Japanese. But I predict that within 10 years, China will break apart in the same way that the Soviet Union did. In a world of instant communication, empires that are kept together by force of arms simply do not last very long.
But will the Chicoms collapse without a whimper? I once read a general of their saying that, in the event of collapse, they would focus the frustrations and anger of their people “into a fist, striking outward.”
I mean, collapse WITH a whimper*. Typo!
Quite prescient for a surfer... /g I agree with you.
>The difference between Japan in the 30s and China today is that Japan didn’t have an empire while China does now.
Japan was an empire in the 1930’s. They occupied Korea, Formosa, and Manchuria, none of which were Japanese territory.
China has not yet invaded any sovereign power (save the tiff with Vietnam, which didn’t last long).