>>509394405 >Here, there is me, and (my) comrade Liao Chengzhi. How many troops were left? It was reduced from 300,000 to 25,000. Why should we thank the Imperial Japanese Army? It was the Japanese Imperial Army that came, and we fought the Japanese Imperial Army before we cooperated with Chiang Kai-shek again. After eight years of fighting with 25,000 troops, we have grown to 1.2 million troops and a base area of 100 million people. Do you say be thankful?"
>On 18 December 1970, Mao Zedong revealed to American journalist Edgar Snow that "...... Those Japanese are really good, the Chinese revolution cannot work without the help of the Japanese. I told this to a Japanese man who was a capitalist named Saburo Nango. He always said, "I'm sorry for invading you. I said: No, you guys helped a lot, the Japanese militarism and the Emperor of Japan. You occupied half of China, and the Chinese people all rose up to fight against you, and we got a million troops and occupied 100 million people
