You’ll never catch a Chinese, Red or otherwise, defending the Japanese. If the Chinese had had the bomb, they probably wouldn’t have stopped dropping them on Japan until it was just a lump of radioactive glass.
Oh sure, I know. I’m a student of history as well. But don’t you think that if it’s in their strategic interests to do so, that other things can come before ethnicity for the Chinese communist party? And Francis seems quite friendly with them, all in all.