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The Chinese want to take back all their territory seized by foreigners.

Think the Rhineland, western Poland, Czechoslovakia. As for the chinese only caring about their borders, as another poster insisted, the japanese pretty much kept to themselves for thirteen hundred years give-or-take too.

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China is different than Japan.

They were one of two super powers circa 1500 a.d., the other being the Ottoman Empire. Both were in decline during the 19th century and finally collapsed around the time of WWI.

Japan tried to be like European nations, in that they moved to claim colonies in Asia. Most westerners don’t like to hear that, believing themselves beneficial towards third world territory and peoples living there. Nevertheless, they conquered areas of the world for their own financial gain, just as the Japanese later emulated.