hi esther ruth, not only for the above mentioned reasons would china love to own japan, but in chinas view, ww2 was a humiliation of all humiliations. payback is desireable in chinas eyes. but the biggest prize of all would be the technology transfer, wow, nothing on this scale has ever happened before. one day you are a rodent climbing around a cesspool trying to look up and the next day you are equal to the usa in technology, a very worthwhile gamble in my book.
and the next day you are equal to the usa in technology,
literally, and recently. a few files sent by email and walla. our comsec in our government sucks.
Geez, we can't even keep a under-secretary from stealiing secrets in his socks. He only loses his clearance a couple of years, and the col. whistleblower who exposed the 9/11 failure loses it for life for taking a few skillcrafts.