When a child gets carried away, we used to scold them by saying, “Don’t act as if you grew up all by yourself.”
Now, that is a line we say to China.
The Japanese assets left behind in Manchuria amounted to approximately 1.5 trillion yen (in the currency value of the time).
Japan’s ODA to China totaled 3.66 trillion yen by its conclusion in Heisei 20 (2008).
Plus technical and skills assistance, and more.
A country that repays kindness with hostility.
There is no fate for it but to perish.