[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "And America defeated Japan. Not China."

Маркус, if only your history was as busy getting informed as your posting are busy....

Chiang Kai-shek, who led China [ until the CCP came to power in 1949 ] was an ally in the Pacific War.

If you had consulted any of the online source, the allies against Imperial Japan were "The major Allied participants included China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. China had already been engaged in a war against Japan since 1937. "

"We" is a pronoun which includes our allies. Even the little Netherlands.

[Verginius Rufus]

I am well aware that Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of one of the major states in the war against Japan--since the Japanese had invaded China and occupied a large portion of it. My understanding is that Chiang and Mao made a kind of truce and both were supposed to fight the Japanese but that Mao did little of that--but did benefit from the Soviets entering the war at the very end (access to weapons to be used against the Nationalist regime). I think Chiang was present at one of the major meetings in the course of the war with FDR and Churchill.

But in terms of making Japan surrender, it was the American atomic bombs that did that. How many bombs did the Chinese drop on Japan?

[Verginius Rufus]

The Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) belonged to the Netherlands at the time and were invaded by Japan. So naturally the Netherlands, although occupied by the Germans, were part of the alliance against Japan.

[marcusmaximus]

America nuked Japan and won the war. China didn’t do squat.