>>17974265
And after 1941, the US is the one that needed China strategically
China blocked Japan from invading British India and Soviet Central Asia
If China gave up, Japan could seize the entire British India and bomb Allied oilfields in the Middle East
China had massive tungsten copper and iron mines in unoccupied Yunnan
China had Yumen oilfield in unoccupied Gansu
China had the massive fertile rice bowl Basin in occupied Sichuan.
The US and UK begged China to send 200,000 troops into British Burma to stop Japan from reaching British India
America didn't give a single cent of aid or send any pilots to China before Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940
After 1940, none of the aid was charity, America needed China to protect British India and to stop Japam from capturing China's own iron, copper and oilfields
If China surrendered, Japan could invade British India from all axises and use all of China's copper, iron, oil and grain to feed and supply its war in British India and SEA
America would not have given a single penny if China didn't block British India and didn't have vast mines and rice fields that Japan could use.
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>>17974718
Entire provinces of China were never occupied by Japan
Entire Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai were never occupied by Japan
Most of Yunnan, Fujian, Guizhou were not occupied
West Guangxi, West Hunan, West Hubei, west Henan northeast Guangdong, southeast Jiangxi, South Anhui, southwest Zhejiang were not occupied by Japan.
Not a single Japanese soldier occupied any of those