While we were condemning Japan’s aggression in China we were selling them the scrap metal to feed their war machine. Nothing personal against China; it was just business.
Hey, we sold the Chinese airplanes (its a great story - read The Ragged Rugged Warriors by Martin Caiden sometime). Big deal. It IS business and it doesn’t stop for war.
Or don’t you know the story from WWI about the Brits paying Krupp Arms a penny royalty for every fuse of a certain type, because they licensed it from Krupp?