Chinese-Dragon
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Well, thank you for telling me that. I am aware of the crimes against humanity that the Japanese did which has led to a big animosity between Chinese and Japanese people. Can you tell me if such an animosity existed before Imperial Japan became all militaristic in the late 1920's?
I am less informed by the role of the West. What did they do in China? I know about the civil war but also not in detail. Have to read more about those two topics.
Well, you are already doing a great job to be able to do just that. In fact I would say that you are second to none after the USA.
What were the old national anthems about then?
I think we're going to anger Solomon with the off-topic posts. I'll answer this one, and let Solomon have his thread back afterwards.
Imperial China was extremely weak towards the end of the Qing Dynasty. We invented things like guns, firearms, artillery, explosives, rockets, etc. but the West took these Chinese inventions and used them to kill us, plunder our country, steal everything of value and poison us with Opium (you may have heard of the Opium wars).
Then Japan came along and did even worse. Apart from the millions killed, there were also human experiments like Unit 731. Even though it was 70 years ago, a lot of people are still angry, especially in China and South Korea.
But in the end, I don't blame either one. We brought in on ourselves by being weak, and fighting against ourselves rather than the invaders. But that will never happen again.