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As the victorious country of World War II , China has the right to ask Japan for war compensation.
And according to the liquidation at that time, Japan needs to compensate my country with RMB 120 billion! But with Xiaori's style of acting, we must have a long dispute with us.
As expected, the compensation for the founding of New China did not arrive at the slightest amount of money! However, just when China and Japan agreed to compensate in 1972, Chairman Mao suddenly announced that would voluntarily give up claiming compensation from Japan!
Why did Chairman Mao do this at that time? What is the profound meaning behind this move?
Japan launched the 918 incident in 1931 and invaded Northeast my country. It was not until announced its surrender to in 1945. It has been committed evil in our country for 14 years. During this period, the Japanese army's crimes were endless!
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The 14-year War of Resistance Against Japan , the number of homeless refugees in China reached more than 42 million!
More than 35 million Chinese military and civilians were injured and killed in the war! The economic losses caused by
directly or indirectly are as high as US$600 billion!
behind these numbers are the sufferings of our country and people, and these numbers are only part of our country’s losses! The amount of property Japan plundered from China during the repeated wars of aggression against China was even more huge! Think about how many unequal treaties that were humiliating and humiliating in the Qing government signed in the previous !
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Among them, there are three compensations that China has paid to Japan with war compensation! The first war compensation was 1874 Ryukyu incident compensation - equivalent to silver dollars .65 million yuan!
The second is 1895 war compensation - including military expenses, interest loss expenses, Liao redemption expenses, etc., a total of .46 billion taels of silver is equivalent to silver dollars .61 billion!
The third war compensation is Boxer Indemnity ( Xinchou Treaty ), and the final actual payment of is equivalent to silver dollars to 91.54 million yuan!
These three transactions are equivalent to silver dollars .703 billion . These are extremely heavy economic burdens imposed by Japanese imperialism on the Chinese people, which greatly hindered China's modernization process! So when Xiaoli asked us for money, he was not ruthless at all. Why did he give up when it was our turn?
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In fact, in 1945, after Japan announced its surrender, the then National Government Chiang Kai-shek authorities also set up a compensation investigation committee to be specifically responsible for the verification of Japan's compensation ceremony, because I knew that I would argue with Xiaotian later. Who would have thought that this would take two years to go on! It was not until 1947 that the Allies formally filed a claim for compensation, with a total of about 54 billion US dollars, and accounted for 40% of the shares. In other words, we need to pay 21.6 billion US dollars of war compensation to our country, equivalent to about 120 billion RMB!
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But Japan also suffered a lot of losses in the war, and the huge compensation that needs to be paid after the defeat in the war is even worse for Japan, which is not wealthy in a small life! Even if all the assets in Japan are liquidated, it is not enough to pay compensation. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek proposed to allow Japan to settle all the industrial assets worth in the Northeast region worth . At this time, Japan would have no choice but to disagree! But who knew that when the Soviet Union broke out halfway, he also fell in love with the valuable industrial facilities.
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The Soviet Union immediately said: When you China is bullied, we can send more than 2 million troops to help you, and you can get the gratitude! So all the 12 billion assets left by Japan in China are given as trophy!
Of course Chiang Kai-shek would not agree. When the Soviet Union saw that it was too soft, then it would be hard! He transported all the industrial facilities in Northeast China to the Soviet Union without saying a word, and left them to the scrap copper and iron for Lao Jiang! The Soviet army was so strong that Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to attack the Soviet Union, so he could only start from Japan. So he arranged for people to go to Japan to search for materials and transport them back to China, but since Japan was defeated, it has been looted by many countries and has not been able to provide compensation in a short period of time. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek agreed to let Japan pay in batches, and Japan's economic development and development such as will be compensated one by one!
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result Chiang Kai-shek does not talk about martial ethics, openly tore up the " Double Ten Agreement " Civil war broke out, and the matter of claiming compensation from Japan will be put on hold for the time being! In order to stabilize his position, Chiang Kai-shek, who later fled Taiwan, instructed the Taiwanese authorities to declare that he would reduce or give up all of Japan's war compensation at the discretion! This is actually to exchange interests for Japan's recognition of Taiwan's status, and at the same time, it can continue to gain the trust and support of the United States. , but does Chiang Kai-shek have this right? Of course not ! So his statement is actually not legally effective, and New China still has the right to claim compensation from Japan!
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But in in the 1950s and 1960s, Sino-Soviet relations broke out, and they were threatened by two superpowers at once, and they had no time to take into account claims from Japan, so Japan kept pretending to be stupid. Faced with the complex international situation at that time, China naturally needed to seek new development methods. blacksmiths also needed to be strong on its own. In addition to vigorously developing national defense and military industry, we must also try our best to gain some foreign aid!
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1964 China successfully developed the atomic bomb , which also had a certain position in the diplomatic field. At that time, the United States was in a mess on the Vietnam battlefield. As Vietnam neighbors, we naturally became the targets the United States wanted to win over. With Kissinger's secret visit to China and Nixon President's visit to China, China-US diplomatic relations kicked off! And Japan, which has always been acting in the United States, naturally has to keep up!
The then Japanese Prime Minister Sato Eisaku was an absolute anti-China faction. The Japanese government led by him also wanted to meet and communicate with us at that time. Who would like to play with someone who made a mistake but admitted it in sincerity? So we rejected his request, and Sato Eizakuro also resigned due to the incident! Later, Tanaka Kakuei came on stage and once again sent a friend application to China. When he saw that his attitude was quite friendly, he passed his friend application!
On September 29, 1972, the Chinese and Japanese governments issued a joint statement - to give up the war compensation claim for Japan !
Japan's war reparations were a huge sum of money. At that time, China needed money to develop. Why did Chairman Mao decide not to? Is it that simple to demonstrate the friendship between China and Japan?
This is actually a major decision made by Chairman Mao based on serious consideration of the international situation at that time and the future development direction of the country!
First of all, We gave up claiming compensation from Japan to truly achieve normalization of Sino-Japanese relations. Shortly after World War II, many countries were in the recovery period, and many countries were full of doubts about establishing diplomatic relations with China. Of course, Japan also had concerns in this regard. In fact, Japan was mainly worried that we would ask them for huge compensation, which is the main reason why previous Japanese governments dared not take risks easily!
But other countries have long urged Japan to pay money, but the compensation is not all real money. For Southeast Asian countries such as , Indonesia, , Japan will pay the money off the debt with inferior products as good ones. Who would like to pick up Japan's junk? Even if Japan reluctantly promises to give cash, such a huge number and heavy burden will eventually fall on the Japanese people. China's abandonment of claims against Japan not only reflects our sincerity, but also reflects the Chinese nation's broad mind of "repaying grievances with kindness" . Wouldn't it be better to kill two birds with one stone!
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Secondly When we establish diplomatic relations with Japan, Japan must delete friends with Chiang Kai-shek on the other side and block them. In this way, Chiang Kai-shek will be isolated internationally, which objectively helps us liberation of Taiwan. , and at that time, China and the Soviet Union were also in a tense state of tension. The Soviet Union was also fighting for Japan and wanted to take Japan as a base to counter our counter-attack. Therefore, we had a good relationship with Japan at that time, which was also conducive to alleviating the situation of oppression by the Soviet Union. Overall, Chairman Mao took the initiative to give up claiming compensation from Japan at that time, which was the most preferred situation in !
We gave up the claim agreement, but used this as a bargaining chip to get more benefits from Japan.
China's rapid development in the late 1970s and early 1980s is inseparable from Japan's help. Not long after China-Japan established diplomatic relations, Japan gave my country nearly US$20 billion in batches of low-interest loans to help my country develop its economy and build infrastructure. It also gave China a lot of investment, which promoted China-Japan cooperation in multiple fields. These have indeed helped us through an important stage of development.
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Of course, this does not mean that we should be grateful to Japan and should put aside our hatred for Japan. How dare we forget the humiliating history of being beaten? After the war, China has done its best to Japan. If they still insist on refusing to apologize to the hurt Chinese people, then don’t tell us any forgiveness, help and apologize are one code to one code!
Combined with China's current achievements, we can understand Chairman Mao's long-term thinking and abandon the position of , the second largest economy in , today, and can handle it freely under the strong suppression of the United States. We must also admire the great man's vision!
