What if China and Japan Made Peace in the 1930's?

You would also have to revert about 30 years of educational history from the people of Japan. It was militaristic to begin with strict anti-Chinese sentiment within their educational books. Why? By 1900s, the Qing was about to just collapse, China was so backward and ineffective after centuries of isolation. Us the great Japan, on this little island with minuscule resources for our great empire, and China this backward land full of space and resources, why should they have it?

Why should they be equal to the great Japan? This couldn't have happened unless this was on another world time line.

But since this is a what if scenario, you might as well just change the very history of China and Japan. You then would have gotten a completely different timeline BEFORE this event as well.

The Chinese people will not bow to other races. So therefore, anyone who dares to step in the Chinese soils illegally will be opposed. Your event would never happen even back in the 1930s then. Remember Wang Jingwei the KMT traitor who made peace with the Jap and set up a Nanjing Government, died a terrible death as a traitor.

solarz said:

If you had any sense of history, you would not make such a ridiculous supposition. Popular sentiment was vastly anti-Japanese from the moment they established the puppet state of Manchuria. "Allying" yourself with an invader is called "surrender", and the Chinese people would never have accepted it!

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Offensive that anyone would have submitted to such a cruel and merciless enemy. I would rather die fighting then to accept that fate.

ww2buff said:

Offensive that anyone would have submitted to such a cruel and merciless enemy. I would rather die fighting then to accept that fate.

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Its not about whether the invader is kind and benevolent or cruel and merciless. It is about the sovereignity of a nation and the pride of a race.

rhino123 said:

Its not about whether the invader is kind and benevolent or cruel and merciless. It is about the sovereignity of a nation and the pride of a race.

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Actually, the cruelty/benevolence of the invader is a pretty big factor too. The Qing were eventually accepted in part because they were relatively benevolent toward the population.

Chinese would never accept peace with Japan in the 1930s, that time was Second Sino Japanese war. In fact before 1930s, the 1920s the Japanese had invaded the Northeast provinces of China, setting up a puppet government with Puyi as the Emperor of Manchuko. In actual fact, the heavy industries in the northeastern China were used to built war machines to enable the future invasion of whole of China.

Being said that, since the invasion already begun in 1920s, in the era of 1930s, ever will the Chinese make peace with Japan!