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In any case, at least militarily, Hu Weidong's strategy of "feeding on the enemy" achieved great success. By mid-November 1941, the Chinese Communist Army had advanced to the Surat-Nagpur line, almost
Controlling half of India, the Fang Yongle Corps, which had greatly increased its strength through the rapid transportation of troops by railway, was approaching India's largest city, Mumbai, while the Wang Zhen Corps, which had parted ways along the way, drove south along the railway along the western line to capture important port cities.
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Lachi, the main force of the Central and South Field Army, the most powerful, formed a pincer 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
Of the 700,000 people, more than 600,000 were killed, captured and missing, and more than 300,000 people surrendered. However, the number of troops in the Chinese Army was only reduced by more than 50,000 people, of which less than 1 were killed in battle.
Thousands of people......
However, Hu Weidong did not expect that the extremely brilliant military victory would actually put China into a greater dilemma internationally. First of all, the U.S. government paid more attention to China as a result, and even once considered China's opposition to the old world order dominated by the West.
The threat ranked ahead of the Soviet Union.
After discovering that material assistance alone was no longer enough to help the British, Roosevelt decided to directly put pressure on China. In addition to prompting Congress to agree to increase military spending again and pass a new military expansion (the purchase of weapons and equipment also increased significantly, which is particularly worth mentioning)
What I want to mention is that the shipbuilding plan that was once reduced a lot by Congress has almost reached the same period in history. You must know that now the old
The United States has not yet entered the war.) In addition to the plan, he also ordered the Ministry of War to send some personnel to pretend to be volunteers to participate in the war in India. He also ordered the Ministry of the Navy to send the main force of the Pacific Fleet, including 7 battleships and 3 heavy aircraft carriers, to the Far East for deterrence.
In addition to using the U.S. naval base in Manila along China's coastal areas, Roosevelt also sent a note to the Japanese government, requesting the lease of a naval base in Okinawa.
Naturally, the Japanese government was unwilling to agree to such excessive demands, but when the Americans came up with their big move to force debt, the Japanese government could only grit its teeth and agree. The Americans' "barbarism" aroused strong anti-American sentiment in Japan.
, and also forced the Japanese Communist Party and other originally independent forces to the government to unite with the outside world. This further stabilized the internal affairs.
After that, the whole country of Japan quickly entered a state of full war readiness. However, at this time, the Roosevelt administration did not pay enough attention to Japan's intelligence work because its attention was attracted to Germany and China, and the Japanese government's confidentiality work was extremely good (
Note 1), thus underestimating Japan’s strength and failing to take due precautions.
But it’s no wonder. According to common sense, the failure of the war of aggression against China should definitely severely weaken Japan. During the war, Japan permanently lost 2.25 million troops (counting the Korean puppet troops from the current Japanese-occupied areas of Korea).
After the war, the island of Taiwan and its surrounding islands, which were rich in resources and had begun preliminary industrialization, also lost more than 4 million people on the island. The independence of North Korea also reduced Japan's population by 4 million.
With a population of tens of thousands, the sum of several items
There are no less than 11 million people, and a high proportion of them are young adults. This is undoubtedly a huge loss for Japan, which has a local population of only more than 70 million. Moreover, Japan has also been strategically bombed by the Chinese Air Force, and the losses are also quite staggering.
It is unclear how long it will take to pay off the foreign debts owed during and after the war. Therefore, many Western commentators believe that Japan will never recover from this, but they underestimate the resilience of East Asian nations and the power of scientific and technological progress.
Historically, in the early post-war period, Japan basically had no U.S. aid at the beginning and was robbed of a large amount of wealth by the United States. In 1951 (Note 2), Japan's economic aggregate fully recovered to the pre-war level, and it was at this point that Japan
The United States only began to support Japan a year later, so this stage was mainly accomplished by the Japanese themselves. It can be seen that the speed of reconstruction was much faster than most people thought.
In comparison, although Japan in this time and space was also bombed, the strength of the Chinese Air Force was far from that of the United States after 1944, and the damage caused was naturally much smaller. Japan's domestic industry was damaged.
Not too big, otherwise China would not be so lenient towards Japan in the peace talks.
Note 1: But having said that, the CIA had not yet been established during this period. Historically, the United States’ outstanding intelligence work relied heavily on codebreaking (the most important achievements of American intelligence during World War II were achieved through codebreaking), but here’s the proviso:
Germany and Japan no longer use that trap.
Dad's cipher machine was used to formulate telecommunications codes. The United States no longer had this loophole to exploit. Its ability to detect intelligence was actually quite poor among the powers in World War II. The historically unbreakable codes of the United States were also later used in this time and space.
Hu Weidong was very angry, see below for details...
Note 2: It is also said that it was 1956, but in 1951, the output of Japan's major industrial products generally reached or even exceeded the highest level in history. This is far more reflective of the actual situation than GDP denominated in US dollars, or even the total industrial and agricultural output value.
ps: If you only look at the post-war Japanese GDP calculated in US dollars and other data currently circulating on the Internet, you will find many contradictions, mainly because Japan has been implementing the U.S. formula for the first two decades after the war.
The fixed exchange rate of 1 US dollar = 360 yen, but in fact this exchange rate was seriously underestimated. Later this
After the exchange rate mechanism was broken, the yen continuously appreciated more than three times (that is, more than four times), and Japan suddenly changed from a numerically poor country to the world's second developed country. But in fact, this is just a word game.
, Japan has already had its strength, and China’s GDP has surged in recent years, easily surpassing Japan. The reasons are actually similar.
The so-called "China's GDP surpassed Japan's in 1950, and it took 60 years of development to return to the starting point." is actually because the RMB depreciated three times (up to four times) during that period, which was less than the Japanese yen.
The difference between entering and exiting is 12-16 times.
Of course, this does not mean that the current RMB value is still undervalued (from the perspective of Japan's relatively high prices among developed countries, the possibility of a high Japanese yen exchange rate is greater, and of course the situation is still better than that of South Korea.),
This was mainly due to the fact that the official exchange rate of the RMB was set too high in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which resulted in the "China
There is an illusion that China's GDP surpassed Japan's in 1950. In fact, there must have been at least a double gap at that time. After all, the gap in the output of major industrial products was dozens of times, and no matter how high the agricultural GDP is, it will be difficult to balance the huge gap in industry.
, even if it is possible, it has no practical significance...(To be continued...)