Back 5 years ago, lots of Pro-CCP China posters were having a party on these forums about flimsy South China Sea tribunal ruling and boasting confidence about taking Taiwan.
PRC should have compramised on SCS and should have given up claim on Taiwan a decade ago.
Now their ego and stupidity...
Very different example. Example of Kuril is more like Senkaku island. If the PRC wants to maintain their claim on Senkaku islands, then w/e. Okinawa people are part of the electoral franchise and have more control over their fate than places inside mainland China even such as Tibet and Xinjiang.
All PRC has to do its give up claim on Taiwan and compromise on 9 dash line. Japanese care about pragmatic results. Humiliation stuff sounds like CCP propaganda, not Japanese thinking.
The US population sympathized with China following the Nanking Massacre and sentiment towards Japan took some notches downwards. Later through 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, the Nationalists Chinese diplomatic team would continue to appeal to the US for lines of credits and supplies whereas despite...
The Nationalists Chinese put up a much harder fight than expected and smacks the rashful Japanese in pushing for expanding the conflict. However there were also some Japanese leadership that wanted to end the war and so did on the Nationalist Chinese side as they were becoming increasingly...
To emphasis the point you responded to, the name "Republic of China" was by Chiang Kai-shek when he and the rest of the run away Nationalists Chinese arrived on Taiwan. That was only possible due to US WW2 agreement to remove Formosa from Japan and grant it to the Nationalists Chinese that...
Misleading title. Taiwan is not part of mainland China. East Asian tensions would drastically be reduced if Mainland China stopped being against ROC's desire to just be Taiwan. ROC was when CKS and 2 million runaway mainland Chinese were given control of the island of 6 million people. That was...
Well, looking up numbers, just a decrease in growth rate, not total. About 1.7 million for the past couple of years.
http://www.ifsa.jp/index.php?news20210205...