Why a War Between China and Japan Would Be Sheer Chaos

PVT James Strait - Just because they can has never been a Chinese, thing, that is more Clausewitz than Sun Tzu. giving the enemy graceful way out has been a prime strategy there since the Five Kingdoms and before the Qin.

There would have to be a reason that they would pragmatically want to do so. Too ittle profit for too great a investment

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting." there is a reason that his guys book is on everyones reading list even after 25 Centuries.

PVT James Strait - It could go nuke, but i dounbt it since both players have been playing the game together since Europeans were still in the Dark Ages, the Chinese would gain nothing and the Japanese would lose too much. and neither would be under an existential threat from the other. They are both bickering over something that they both can afford to lose.

Cynthia Croft - If it comes to a conflict between the two, if the histrouy of the past 60 years is any indication, it will be that at the Japanese forget another part of their history, pissing off their neighbors so who somehow can't forget mass murder on the level of the Holocaust, and then someone on either side makes mistake.

Japan will militarily get the benefit of the doubt from it neighbors in a generation or two. American still get irritable about Pearl harbor, just think how the Chinese feel out things like Unit 731 (vivisection, torture and use of Bio-weapon on civilian towns) and Nanking 300-500 thousand murders, or the 250,000 murders in reprisal for the Doolittle raids.

Nations like Korea that were brutalized and enslaved for decades are not exactly brimming over with affection for the thugs who did it, and who now want to pretend they did not. They will do business with them , but fight and die for them>

PVT James Strait - I was just pointing out that with these two particular nations it is very unlikely to ever reach that point, unless Japan lands troops on Mainland China, it that happens Japan ceases to exist as a place where humans live, but i think that even the most jingoistic Japanese fan of the "good old days of" Empire KNOW that so it is not all that likely