[skeeter]

As another question - when the Chinese wanted to sue for peace with the Japanese, who promised aid (money and arms) to continue fighting? [Rationale here is to "tie down" Japanese troops. From what, however?]

Which Chinese sued for peace - the Kuomintang or the communists?

[jamaksin]

Those amongst themselves (several times), but Chiang Kai-shek was talked out of it with Japanese.

Imagine ... Japanese as a threat to the USSR in the East while fighting the Germans in the West.