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However! by 1945 Japan was no threat to the Soviet Union, and I would characterize Stalin's posture as "doing well while doing good" i.e. helping out the US war effort against Japan while sending troops into Manchuria to ensure that the Japanese presence on the Asian mainland (and its threat to the USSR) were obliterated forever.<br /><br />Re PRC genuine guarantor of Asian stability, obviously quite a few holes in that argument. However! with the two other Pacific powers, the US & Japan teaming up against the PRC, the PRC playing the "Greater China" card as a countergambit is almost inevitable. Virtually every East Asian nation with exception of Japan has an economically significant Chinese diaspora and fragile multiethnic polities, and pushing the regional protector angle gives the PRC an opportunity to make mischief, if not apply leverage, against governments inclined to line up against the PRC. So I think the CCP has reason to believe it can counterprogram against the "Asian democracies united against PRC" framing that has besotted US strategists.China Handhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07137884672692120783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-79218873727201448502015-09-08T10:00:34.447-07:002015-09-08T10:00:34.447-07:00Have to agree that the source you linked to was no...Have to agree that the source you linked to was not the most fortunate choice you could have made. Also, even if you distinguish the China War from the Pacific War, it began in 1937 and Khalkhin Gol was in 1939. Or are you implying there was no Japanese Fascism so that the Soviets weren't fighting against fascism? Since your source likes to emphasize the US stance against Japan after the Marco Polo bridge incident, this is definitely odd. Really, "opportunistic" is an unfortunately tendentious phrasing. <br /><br />If Xi Jinping is laying claim on behalf of China to a role as guarantor of East Asian stability and guarantor of the Chinese, there are aspects to that role that make it very problematic. So much so, that perhaps observers might be understood as having reason for understanding this as kind of aggressive in more unexpected or less obvious ways? First, being guarantor of the Taiwan regime raises the question of the relation of the Chinese state as of now to the Chinese bourgeoisie in the diaspora, including Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. There are wrinkles enough in Hong Kong. Some of the wealthy overseas Chinese may find this far more disconcerting than you seem to. <br /><br />Further, guaranteeing the Chinese people might cause concern about Chinese minorities role in domestic politics, serving as vehicles or maybe just pretexts for unwelcome interventions. <br /><br />And there is the fundamental question of whether there really is such a thing as guaranteeing stability. In particular, the South Korean government is not at all politically or economically stable. That's why they can't find any rational way to deal with the north, not even when they are convinced that it is on the verge of collapse. Xi's commitment to capitalist development isn't paying off at the moment. Taking on guaranteeing East Asian stability may not seem like much now, but does he really have a clue how much this can cost?<br /><br />Steven JohnsonS Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610068751705809284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-30567757107964564692015-09-08T05:43:27.531-07:002015-09-08T05:43:27.531-07:00"and the opportunistic Soviet invasion of Man..."and the opportunistic Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the Kuriles in the last moments of the war."<br />Bollocks!<br />1. At Yalta, Stalin had pledged that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan three months after the end of the war in Europe and Stalin was fulfilling that pledge, unlike Churchill and Roosevelt and their various promises to open a second front in Europe.<br />2. You do not put together and reposition a force of 1.6 million men, 26,000 artillery pieces, 5,500 tanks and 3,700 aircraft in a couple of days. Look at how long it took the United States to prepare for Operation Desert Storm. This was not an opportunistic attack. It was the last major action of the war that caused the Americans to change the terms they offered to the Japanese and the Japanese to surrender. <br />3. Nobody but a handful of high-ranking American officials knew that the United States was going to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most people including the Japanese believed hat the Americans would have to invade the Japanese home islands at great expense in casualties. Initially, even after the two nuclear bombs were dropped, there were those in the Japanese high command who thought the casualties were acceptable and the best defence was still to draw the Americans into a long drawn-out expensive invasion and occupation. The Soviet declaration of war on Japan and the invasion of Manchuria and Korea changed that because the Japanese knew that Stalin was prepared to take casualties at levels the Americans wouldn't contemplate and that it would be far easier for the Soviet Unon to invade one of the Japanese home islands than for the Americans (look at an atlas to understand why). And by invading and occupying Manchuria, the Soviet Union had deprived Japan of its major source of raw materials and reinforcements of almost one million trained soldiers.<br />I think it's fair to say that Stalin and the Soviet Union actually scared the Japanese into surrendering, not something that a militaristic nation like Japan would like to even contemplate so most Japanese go along with the belief that it was only the Americans who defeated Japan. And without the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, it is less likely that the CPC would have defeated the KMT or that the Korean and Vietnam wars would have happened. Americans like to go on about how they won the Cold War. Unfortunately, most of them don't realize that it was over and won by the Soviet Union before the Americans even worked out that it had started. Just ask yourself how different the world would look for the United States without the CPC running China.blowbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04833922175199272372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-77579927652335570732015-09-08T04:16:52.672-07:002015-09-08T04:16:52.672-07:00Another aspect of the Eastern theater of the war a...Another aspect of the Eastern theater of the war against Japan was Russia's decisive defeats – more like annihilations – of two of Japan's finest armies, one at the beginning of the war against Japan and one that forced Japan's surrender to the USA. Those were the battles of Khalkhin Gol and the invasion of Manchuria in 1945.<br /><br />They were not only decisive, they also demonstrated, twice, the remarkable capacity of Russian generals to strategize and their troops to execute their strategies. Both victories were against large, front line armies and, in both cases the Russians pulled off double envelopments and subsequently destroyed their foes.<br /><br />An 20 August 1939, while 50,000 Soviet and Mongolian soldiers of the 57th Special Corps defended the east bank of the Khalkhyn Gol. Three infantry divisions and a tank brigade crossed the river, supported by massed artillery and the Soviet Air Force. Once the Japanese were pinned down by the attack of Soviet center units, Soviet armored units swept around the flanks and attacked the Japanese in the rear, achieving a classic double envelopment. When the Soviet wings linked up at Nomonhan village on 25 August, the Japanese 23rd Infantry Division was trapped. On 26 August, a Japanese counterattack to relieve the 23rd Division failed. On 27 August, the 23rd Division attempted to break out of the encirclement, but also failed. When the surrounded forces refused to surrender, they were again hit with artillery and air attacks. By 31 August, Japanese forces on the Mongolian side of the border were destroyed, leaving remnants of the 23rd Division on the Manchurian side. The Soviets had achieved their objective.<br /><br />Then, over the course of 12 days – Aug. 9-20, 1945 – in Manchuria, the Soviet Union wiped out the Kwantung Army, the biggest command within the Japanese army, with over one million troops, and thus forced the surrender of Emperor Hirohito.Godfree Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06178509602799506224noreply@blogger.com