However, the domestic political situation in China has made a considerable number of Americans very worried. The materials they provided for aid could not achieve the purpose of attracting, delaying, and distracting the Japanese troops they hoped to achieve. Instead, they would be used by two parties to eliminate dissidents.
In the battle. Instead of reducing the Japanese pressure on the United States, the Chinese civil war will actually reduce the Japanese pressure on the Chinese battlefield.
Although the U.S. president is not a China expert, and the changes in the situation in China can only be understood through the U.S. Embassy in China and those Americans who have lived and done business in the U.S. for a long time, Americans still have their own sources of intelligence after all.
.Although in many cases their sense of smell is far from as sensitive as after World War II, they still have a certain understanding of the situation in China, right?
Especially under the current situation where the Japanese are taking aggressive offensives in Southeast Asia, Americans are still very sensitive to changes in China's domestic political and military situation. After the Wannan Incident, they were experiencing increasing Japanese military actions in Southeast Asia.
The Americans, who were under pressure to act, were even more angry than the Soviets, who in theory should be more angry. They were very worried that the local conflict would evolve into a full-scale civil war in China.
For the Americans, they are least willing to see this situation. At least for now, they need a China that can hold back the Japanese army for the Americans, rather than a China that is now divided and can only let the Japanese take advantage. And right now
China's political trend is what makes Americans worry about this. Americans who need China to share the military pressure of the Japanese are still very concerned about it.
What Americans are even more worried about is that even if China is temporarily unable to fight a civil war, once the United States joins the war, China will preserve its strength and hand over all Japanese troops to the Americans to deal with them.
He was hoarding supplies and preserving troops for the fight for China's leadership after the war.
Once the two major political parties in China adopt this approach unanimously, it will definitely be a disaster for Americans in the future Pacific battlefield. Because that means that the war may be delayed for a long time, which means that more Americans will
Sacrifice your own life. Americans who never take the lives of Chinese people seriously are still very concerned about the price their own people will pay in this war.
Although the Americans have not yet been truly involved in this war that has ignited across the three continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa, and are still grinding their teeth with the Japanese at the negotiation table, they are still bargaining. But for some high-level Americans,
We have already smelled the smell of war. Moreover, the results of World War I have also stimulated the appetite of some people in the United States in disguise.
In fact, although the Americans have been giving in to the Japanese offensive in Asia, in Europe, they are currently responsible for escorting the British transport fleet, and have actually been involved in the war in disguise, and have sunk German submarines.
Americans have actually entered the war.
In Asia, the reason why they are still making concessions to the Japanese is not only because the domestic political situation in the United States does not allow it, but they also feel that there is still some oil and water to be squeezed from the Japanese. Since the Japanese launched the July 7th Incident, Americans have
In order to maintain the war, they made a lot of money from the large-scale purchases. A large part of the wealth that the Japanese gained from China came into the pockets of the Japanese through the trade situation of steel, oil, and machinery and equipment.
Although the U.S. government has stopped exporting all strategic materials to the Japanese at the moment, it only means that it will not sign new contracts, but it has not stopped the execution of previously signed purchase contracts except for petroleum products. To be precise, although it is currently
The clouds of war in the Pacific are getting lower and lower, but the Americans are still making money from the gold reserves and dollars in the Japanese pockets.
At the beginning of the year, while the Americans had announced an embargo against Japan, they also sold tens of thousands of tons of petroleum products, some steel products, and some mineral resources that the Japanese desperately needed to the Japanese on the grounds of fulfilling previously signed contracts.
In other words, in the early days of the outbreak of the Pacific War, a large part of the bombs that fell on the heads of the American troops at Pearl Harbor were aircraft and warships that used their exported petroleum products as fuel. They were transported outside Pearl Harbor and eventually fell on the heads of the Americans themselves.
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In addition to the economic value that the Japanese can extract in the end, the most fundamental thing about Americans is that they do not care about the Japanese from their hearts. For the Japanese, the Germans in Europe are their biggest opponents. As for the Japanese
, they haven’t noticed it too much.
Because Americans have always believed that as an island country that lacks almost all resources for development, Japan is too dependent on the United States. As long as it takes economic sanctions when necessary, it can cut off its access to war resources from the United States.
, the Japanese will definitely bow their heads.
What's more, the British, who have a powerful navy, blocked the entire European continent on the first day of the war in Europe, cutting off all German trade channels with the Americans except through the Soviet Union. It can be said that the Americans are now in
The Germans won't get much benefit from it.
At present, the Americans are focusing more on Europe, and in Asia, they are still adopting the delaying method as much as possible. However, the Japanese's aggressive offensive in Southeast Asia has made the Americans feel more and more pressure. And now the Japanese are trying to delay the war in Asia.
The Chinese are undoubtedly the best ally to spread the pressure while the Japanese are engaged in a life-and-death war.
This is why they sold a large number of urgently needed new fighter jets and a large number of military supplies to the Anti-Japanese Alliance at a low price last year. After the establishment of the Wang Puppet Government in Nanjing, they immediately gave Chongqing a loan that they had repeatedly requested but never received. They also promised to provide loans to Chongqing.
For Chongqing, the main reason is to provide urgently needed new fighter jets.
Pearson's question probably represents the question of an American president in the White House who is obviously worried about China's tendency in this regard. As for the reason why Yang Zhen asked this question, I am afraid it is because he thinks that Chongqing has been praying for US aid for a long time.
In terms of aspects, they can control it.
In addition to requesting military equipment from the Americans, the Nationalist Government also repeatedly requested military assistance from the Americans. On the economic front, it even offered a billion-dollar loan to help them stabilize the constant inflation.
For the Americans, as long as the Nationalist government still needs the Americans, they can put a halter on Chongqing.
From the perspective of the Americans, as long as all loans to Chongqing, which are extremely hungry for funds, are terminated, Chongqing will immediately become honest. At least they will not be allowed to take the initiative to attack Yan'an before the end of the war. To deal with Chongqing, the Americans still have this
Confident.
However, compared to Chongqing, which has many factions, internal strife and low military combat effectiveness, the so-called local armed forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which is more helpful to them, is something they have no confidence in. Because they clearly know
, the National Government has almost no control over this army.
This well-equipped and highly effective anti-resistance alliance, including their comrades in North China and Central China, is not like the previous armies of various factions in China. They can only rely on supplies from Chongqing to survive. They have been looking for their own way to survive.
They do not rely on the support of the National Government.
Especially the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which is the most powerful force among them, has not received a bullet or a penny of material support from Chongqing since the day it was established. The National Government has no support for them.
It cannot exert any influence. Even because its combat area is far away from the control area of the Nationalist Government, it cannot even be restricted by public opinion.
Compared with others, this army has no taboos in its actions. Once they are attacked by Chongqing government troops, or want to seize power in China, they will not have any concerns. Because they do not have to come from Chongqing.
With a grain of food supply and a penny of military pay, you can maintain your combat effectiveness.
Although their current equipment is still inferior to the Japanese army, it has no problem against the large but weak National Government army. And after receiving US assistance, they have become more powerful, not only in terms of combat effectiveness
Above all, it means that it has more advantages over the Nationalist Government’s army in terms of equipment.
The Americans hope that after receiving military aid, the stronger squadron will be able to hold back more Japanese on the battlefield so that they cannot fight against the United States. Instead of starting a civil war themselves, they will
This relieved the pressure on the Japanese in a disguised manner, allowing them to deploy more divisions from the Chinese battlefield and devote them to the attack on the United States and Britain. This result was unacceptable to the Americans in any case.
Especially now that they have no control over this army, and it is the most powerful army among all the Chinese armies. It is precisely because the Americans know that once this army is used on the battlefield of the civil war, it will cause great harm to the huge and weak citizens.
What kind of consequences will the government bring? This is why Pearson asked today.
Yang Zhen, who immediately figured out the ins and outs, raised his head and looked at Pearson and said, "Pearson, are you asking these questions on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Army or the White House? The person I asked you to ask me questions is probably
You may be one of the real decision-makers in the United States. At least someone who has the power to decide whether to provide assistance to us. If it were just your idea, you wouldn't be so eager to find me."
"But for your question, no matter who asked it, my subordinates and I will give you the same answer. Today I can clearly tell you or the people behind you. Whether you Americans participate in the war or
If we don’t join the war, we will fight this war to the end.”
"To be honest, we have never placed our hope of winning our own nation's liberation war on others. With your American supplies, we will continue to fight. If not, we will continue to fight.
If you Americans don't join the war, we will fight with all our strength to the end. If you join the war, we will give the same answer."
"Because the reason why we are still persisting in the war of resistance is not to obtain your assistance, let alone to obtain your materials and equipment, or for the so-called post-war considerations in your mouth. Our war is for the Chinese nation who are suffering deeply, and for those who
We, our flesh and blood compatriots, are still being ravaged by the Japanese invaders."
"The fact that the war has reached this point is a debt that we, as Chinese people, owe to the entire nation. And this debt cannot be repaid by others. We can only rely on ourselves, and through our indomitable fighting,
Come and find a way for our nation, which is suffering so much, to rise again."
"To repay the debt owed to this country and nation by our soldiers in this life. Through our own efforts, let our nation never experience the sufferings of today again. Rekindle our civilization with a history of five thousand years."
The nation, the sense of national pride and honor it once had.”