War has always existed in the history of human development. As long as there is human beings, there will be war. The launch of war will not only affect the development at that time, but will also pose a great threat to human progress. Now, in order to promote the international order and stabilize the development process of human beings, countries advocate avoiding war and maintaining peace.
Anti-Japanese War is the most far-reaching, largest and longest-lasting war in modern Chinese history. The warring sides of the Anti-Japanese War China, China and Japan, broke out in local wars as early as 1931. Later, Japan's war of aggression against China, broke out in full swing, and China also formed the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, aiming to safeguard the country's sovereignty.
Finally in 1945, the Japanese invaders announced their surrender, and the War of Resistance Against Japan ended with China's victory. Although Japan's surrender was inseparable from the unity of the Chinese military and civilians to fight against the enemy, it is undeniable that it received support and help from other countries in the world. In particular, the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan.
caused an inevitable blow to the economy and politics of Japan, and finally Japanese emperor announced his surrender. After Japan surrenders to , how to deal with Japan has become an important issue facing the world's anti-fascist countries. In the process of human history, every large-scale war has been experienced.
all need to punish those who launch wars and belong to evil forces in the war. For example, after the end of World War I, Germany was restricted by other European countries with Versailles Washington system . After the end of in World War II, Japan, as one of the countries that initiated the war, should naturally be subject to sanctions from China.
After the end of World War II, the United States asked the Japanese government for large compensation, because Japan once attacked the US military Pearl Harbor during World War II, causing great damage to the US Navy. The Japanese government gathered the national strength to repay nearly 1/2 of its debts, because in order to win the war of aggression against China, Japan can be said to have sent all the prime years in the country to the front-line battlefield.
Those 14 or 15-year-old Japanese teenagers were forced to join the army before they graduated from school. Those Japanese officers sent these hopes of the future to the battlefield as cannon fodder and suicide squads. So after the war, Japan took a lot of effort to return to the pre-war level. Although it received support from other countries during this period, the failure of World War II still had a great blow to Japan.
Some Japanese economists infer that the failure of World War II caused the Japanese economy to regress for at least 50 years, and China was the country that was most severely oppressed and damaged by Japan during the Second World War . However, the leaders at that time refused Japan to compensate the Chinese government, and many people expressed confusion about this proposal.
Logically speaking, Japan launched the war of aggression against China and suffered great harm to China. In particular, Japan implemented the policy of fighting to support the war during the war of aggression against China, implemented the three-light policy, and used the local resources of the Chinese to support the Japanese soldiers' war of aggression against China. So after the war is over, the Chinese government should ask them for a lot of compensation.
So why did the leaders at that time make such a decision? In the 1970s, the visit of US President Nixon to China caused an uproar in countries around the world, and many countries have extended olive branches to China, including Japan. At that time, the relationship between Japan and the United States had become very close.
Seeing the US President visiting China, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka also announced a state visit to China the next year. The leaders at that time welcomed Kakuei Tanaka very enthusiastically. During this state visit, Kakuei Tanaka also began to face up to the series of wars that China and Japan had fought before, and recognized one China.
After Tanaka Kakuei completed his visit to China, China and Japan established friendly and cooperative diplomatic relations. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, the leader at that time decided to refuse Japan's compensation for China, on the grounds that although Japan's economy had developed at that time, it was still impossible to provide China with suitable and ideal compensation.
When Japan compensated other countries, the method used was to use goods instead of money, that is, to pay the compensation to these countries with some items instead of compensation. At that time, Japan could only pay a series of military equipment to China, but these military equipment were traditional weapons that had been eliminated.
Even if China accepts these weapons from Japan, it will not play a big role in improving China's comprehensive national strength and increasing its defense strength. In addition, China had agreed to establish friendly and cooperative diplomatic relations with Japan at that time, so the leader made such a decision.
Summary: After the news reached the ears of the Japanese people, they all lamented the magnanimity of the Chinese government, strengthening the ties between the two countries. Although new contradictions arose due to various historical reasons, it has to be said that the decision made by the Chinese government at that time did have very far-reaching historical significance.
