Japan's Economic Offensive in China by Lowe Chuan Hua

Author:Lowe Chuan Hua [Hua, Lowe Chuan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Asia, Japan, Reference, General, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781136927287
Google: fhTJBQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-11-01T01:16:09+00:00

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For a year and a half China has been fighting Japan single-handed, and not until the granting of export credits by the American Export-Import Bank and the Export

Thousands of tons of scrap iron have been collected from the ruined industrial districts of Shanghai and shipped to Japan to feed her ever-hungry war industry.

Credits Department of the British government in December, 1938, did she receive any large-scale material support from the Western Powers. Indeed China would have found her task of resistance much easier had it not been for the lamentable fact that her opponent has for more than a year been able to count upon American and British sources for replenishment of war supplies such as aeroplanes, iron, copper, oil, automobiles and motor accessories. Consciously or unconsciously, the United States of America (more than any other Third Power) has served as Japan’s unlimited arsenal and, together with Great Britain, has been an indirect financial aid to the recognized aggressor. Had the United States government, which has openly declared its sympathy with China, refrained from helping replenish the Japanese war chest by instituting an embargo on Japanese goods, and had it prohibited its armament industries from dealing with Japan, the present aggression on the Asiatic continent would have met with serious difficulties long ago. If they had not been able to get 54.4 per cent of their war materials from the United States and 17 per cent from the British Empire, the Japanese war-lords would have been compelled at least to limit their mad adventures, and thus the suffering and destruction in China might have been greatly curtailed.

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