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By mid-November 1941, the Chinese army had advanced to the Surat-Nagpur line, controlling almost half of India, and Fang Yongle's corps, which had grown in strength by rapid transportation of troops by rail, approached Mumbai, India's largest city, while Wang Zhen's corps, which parted ways halfway, drove south along the railway to Karachi, an important port city. The main force of the Central and Southern Field Army, which was the strongest, formed a flanking attack on the important town of Hyderabad from the north and east. At this time, the total casualties of the British and Indian troops since the Battle of Manipur had exceeded 700,000, of which more than 600,000 were killed, captured and missing, and more than 300,000 surrendered as formations, while the Chinese army had reduced its strength to only more than 50,000 people, of which less than 10,000 were killed in battle

However, Hu Weidong did not expect that the incomparably brilliant military victory would instead plunge China into an even greater predicament in the international arena. The first is that the U.S. government has taken China more seriously, and even ranked China before the Soviet Union for a time as a threat to the old Western-dominated Shijie order.

Roosevelt, after finding that material aid alone was no longer enough to help the British, decided to put direct pressure on China, in addition to prompting Congress to agree to another increase in military spending and a new expansion (the purchase of weapons and equipment has also increased significantly, and it is worth mentioning that the shipbuilding Jihua, which was once reduced by Congress a lot, is almost the same as the same period in history). You must know that the United States has not yet entered the war. In addition to Jihua, he also ordered the War Department to send some personnel to India to participate in the war as volunteers, and also ordered the Navy Department to send the main force of the Pacific Fleet, including seven battleships and three heavy aircraft carriers, to the Far East to deter China's coastal zone.

Naturally, the Japanese Government was reluctant to agree to such an excessive demand, but as soon as the Americans made a big move to force debts, the Japanese Government could only grit its teeth and agree. The "arrogance" of the Americans aroused strong anti-American sentiment in Japan, and also forced the Japanese Communist Party and other originally anti-government shili to the side of the government to unite with the outside world. After being able to further stabilize the interior. At a time when the whole country was rapidly moving into a state of full-scale war readiness, the Roosevelt administration underestimated Japan's strength because it was drawn to Germany and China, and because the Japanese government was extremely good at secrecy.1 Failure to take due precautions.

But it's no wonder. In terms of common sense. The defeat of the war of aggression against China should definitely hurt Japan's vitality. During the war, Japan permanently lost 2.25 million troops (2.5 million if you count the Korean puppet army from the current Japanese-occupied areas of Korea), and after the war, it lost the resource-rich and initially industrialized island of Taiwan and its surrounding islands, and lost more than 4 million people to the island. The independence of North Korea has also reduced Japan's population by more than 4 million, and the total number of several items is not less than 11 million, and the proportion of young and middle-aged people is very high, which is undoubtedly a huge loss for Japan, which has a native population of only more than 70 million, and the Japanese mainland has also been strategically bombed by the Chinese Air Force, and the losses are quite staggering, and the foreign debt owed during and after the war is not known to be paid off. As a result, many Western commentators believe that Japan will collapse from now on, but they underestimate the resilience of the East Asian nation and the progress of science and technology.

Historically, in the early post-war period, Japan was deprived of a large amount of wealth by the United States in the difficult situation of almost no U.S. aid at the beginning, but in 1951 (Note 2), the total economic output fully recovered to the pre-war level, and it was only in this year that the United States began to support Japan.

In contrast, although Japan was also bombed in this time and space, the strength of the Chinese Air Force was far from being compared with the United States after 1944, and the damage caused was naturally much smaller, and Japan's local industry was not greatly damaged, otherwise China would not be so lenient to Japan in the peace talks.

Note 1: But then again, the CIA had not yet been established during this period, and the excellent intelligence work of the United States in history relied largely on code-breaking (the most important achievements of American espionage during World War II were achieved by code-breaking), but in the book, Germany and Japan no longer used the kind of cheating cipher machine to formulate telecommunications passwords, and the United States no longer had this loophole to exploit, and the ability to detect intelligence was actually quite poor among the powers of World War II. And the undecipherable code of the United States in history was later severely overshadowed by Hu Weidong in this time and space, see the following article

Note 2: It is also said that it was in 1956, but in 1951 Japan's output of major industrial products generally reached or exceeded the highest level in history, which is far more reflective of the actual situation than the GDP denominated in US dollars, or even the total output value of industry and agriculture.

PS: If you only look at the data such as Japan's post-war GDP calculated in US dollars that are now circulating on the Internet, you will find a lot of contradictions, mainly because in the first 20 years after the war, Japan has been implementing the fixed exchange rate of 1 US dollar = 360 yen set by the United States, and in fact this exchange rate is seriously undervalued, and later after this exchange rate mechanism was broken, the yen appreciated more than 3 times (that is, more than 4 times), and Japan suddenly changed from a poor country in numbers to the second developed country. But in fact, this is just a play on words, Japan's strength has long been there, and China's GDP has soared in recent years, easily surpassing Japan, and the reason is actually similar.

In 1950, China's GDP surpassed that of Japan, and it took 60 years of development to return to the starting point. In fact, this is because the renminbi has depreciated by as much as three times (at most four times) during this period, and the gap between one entry and one exit is 12-16 times compared with the yen.

Of course, this does not mean that the current value of the renminbi is still undervalued (judging from the high prices in Japan among the developed countries, it is more likely that the yen exchange rate is high, and of course it is better than the situation in South Korea). In fact, there must have been a gap of at least one time at that time, after all, the gap between the output of major industrial products was dozens of times, and no matter how high the agricultural GDP is, it is difficult to balance the huge gap in industry, even if it can, it is of little practical significance (to be continued......