Posted on 05/26/2023 8:14:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
True enough - but the US was not the world power it became later and the American people could not see that aggression in China could affect the US and the American people were still reeling from the expense and combat losses of the First World War.
Despite this - and we were a representative government - we nonetheless came to the support of China, despite the enormous distances, rugged and trackless terrain, the absolute lack of fuel, munitions, electricity, modern engineering equipment or an educated workforce, and many other large problems dealing with China and its various governments. We overcame all of that to build the infrastructure needed to support the air campaign against Japan and support Chinese combat operations in China - all while fighting a desperate and bloody war across the Pacific against Japan.
Anyone discussing the US role in China before and during WWII and then listening to you would think that you're just a mouthpiece for revisionist Chinese propaganda - right?
This wasn’t even technology. It was stealing answers to exams (Maybe that’s a sort of technology.) The Americans for the most part were playing by the rules, and the cheating Asians were riding roughshod over them.
I have several Chinese friends, but they and their parents were born in America, and I do see any of that mindset in them.
The Americanized ones are not the old country ones.................
“I do see any of that mindset in them.”
I mean, “I DON’T see any of that mindset in them.” DON’T.
I knew what you meant.....
Notice that Xi is now calling upon Chinese expatriates all over the world to help the ‘home country’.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel..............
“Xi is now calling upon Chinese expatriates all over the world to help the ‘home country’.”
Even beyond calling upon the ex-pats, there are actual Chinese Police stations in the USA with the sole purpose of keeping track of the people, intimidating them, threatening families back in China, etc. And WE LET THEM OPERATE!!!
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION LETS THEM OPERATE.
They have him by the balls.................
Yes.
I read somewhere that someone, maybe the same gang, did this to the Exeter, one of the cruisers sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea.
Ironic that the two main countries we fought for in WWII, China and Russia are now our enemies.
Even more ironic is the two ships didn’t have air cover because the Hurricanes that were supposed to go to Singapore were sent to the Soviet Union instead.
It did nothing effective following the Mukden incident and the conquest of Manchuria.
Neither did your goodbuddies Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union, who were right next door and more interests there than we did.
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