The Chinese did quite well against the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). The Chinese were tenacious, and determined. No surrender monkeys there. But that was a great land struggle. If there is a Third Sino-Japanese War, it will of course be fought on the water. Who knows what will happen in that case?
Thanks for that.
Don’t forget that during the the latter half of that war, we were kicking Japan from the one end of the ocean to the other.
Might have been a consideration.
Kind of like Russia bragging about beating Germany as if Normandy had nothing to do with it.
The Japanese fought their supply lines in China more than they fought the Chinese. We had a devil of time convincing the Chinese to fight. We’d pay them and they would still figure a way to forestall combat.