[snowsislander]

No nation has ever fought China with weapons and won. They can only be beaten from within (sound familiar ??)

China has been defeated by force of arms many times in the past 200 years. In fact, it is hard to find a world power that hasn't defeated China at some point in the last two hundred years: the First Opium War, the Second Opium War, Shimonoseki, the Boxer Rebellion, Manchukuo - China was the "sick man of [east] Asia" ().

[Paul_Denton]

Shimonoseki

It was the Shimonesky Treaty that allowed Japan to have Taiwan. The San Francisco Treaty is when Japan gave Taiwan to us although Chiang Kai Shek and 2 million of his Nationalists fled there, while we were busy facing off against Stalin.