I Wonder Why?

Harold Soo (D38)

What I cannot understand, and not one so-called Chinese "historian or professors" has ever commented, is why Chaing Kai-Shik at the end of the war, let the more than 2 million Japanese went home when they had done such damages in China. It was known that in Shanghai the Jap troops after surrender pushed their trucks and other valuables into the river instead of leaving them to the Chinese. The disdain for an inferior race is obvious even in to-day Japan. (Recently, the right-wing Tokyo mayor Ichiro Ishihara publicly stated that the Chinese has criminal DNA. Tokyo police was instructed to pay attention to any one speaking Chinese in the streets).

The Chinese people will have no quarrel with the Japanese today if Chaing had killed the Japanese left in China. Then we are even. Given Chaing's personality, killing was never a problem.

A good case in point is the Russian capture of the 600,000 Kwangtung Army in Manchuria after surrender. These were the best of the Japanese nation. The prisoners were sent to Siberia for slave labor, not hard labor. Only 6000 retrained to Japan alive. Did the Japanese ever mention this? They keep quiet because they were the loser. Can you doubt this death labor with Stalin in charge at that time?

My answer is giving the businessman mentality of Chaing, he was planning to use the Japanese army for the war against the Communist because he realized his own army was no match to the ideologized communist troops. Chaing was all for his clique as it had happened before when he forced the Northeast Manchurian troops to fight the communist instead of the Japanese because wasting them both was more to his scheme of controlling the nation than fighting the Japanese. But today. Chaing is again a national racial hero in Peking because he fought the Japanese. What a nonsense of the Chinese people! And Chaing’s “ Rewarding Harm with Kindness” is the biggest joke on the Chinese people. And Chaing for his kindness actually benefited from the Japanese when he was in Taiwan.

We’d better admit the Ah-Q spirit is part of our racial heredity and corruption is our national trait. Just look at Peking and Taiwan even under completely different political systems. And the Japanese knows this well.

The only solution to the Japanese problem is nuclear bombs, or the threat to use it. It will settle all score. A trait of all the third world people, it will always be more mouth water than tea. The first world people will act, not talk. But we belong to the third world as our exalted "historians and professors" are so dumb. So we complained against the Japanese all the time but since when in any history will the stronger stop preying on the weak?