re: #212 ggt

I know. Something about that pissed China off because they were the allies and Japan was the axis. Then Japan got all the US attention and support and became a major economic power.

That was post-war. When the mainland fell to the Reds, we sorta kinda pretended it was a temporary thing, and threw our backing with Chiang Kai-shek. We neglected the captive population in China proper for quite some time. Korea didn’t help matters at all, especially when Chiang was offering to send a million soldiers to assist the US and its allies; they’d planned on invading China through Korea and taking back their home.