How Did China Beat Japan In Wwii Despite Japan

Can Japan still defeat China now like they did in WW2?

First and foremost China would not attack or invade Japan unless provoked. Post WW2 constitution of Japan only allow Japan a self defense force. Abe is trying to change that. However without the help of the US , Japan is in no position to defeat China , not with her present manpower size ,three hundred thousand against China's two million.Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki had renounced nuke armaments and it unlikely for her to go down that path again even if Abe had wanted to. The US will not agree to see a nuke power Japan because Taiwan and S. Korea may want it too. The common factor works against Japan as S. Korea and China has yet to forgive Japan's atrocities during WW2. SEA countries would not welcome it. It brings back dark memories of Japan's expansionist policies of WW2. China would definitely be against a nuke Japan.It took China less than 40 years since Deng to reach the level of weapons innovations and progress. China’s’potential for the next forty years? She can only go forward. Japan depends on the US for most of her armaments. Manpower, a nuclear armed and a technologically advanced China and the uncertainty of US help in the event of an actual war are against Japan.

WWII: What would happen if China surrendered to Japan before 1940?

::WWII: If China surrendered to Japan before 1940, what would the history be?What if China surrounded like France did? With the resources and manpower of China, would Japan still attack Pearl Harbour? Would US still join the war? Could Allies still win?::I’ll copy part of my answer for an alternate history scenario with a similar premise.These were the terms presented to Japan by the Nationalist government in 1938 after the Battle of Wuhan:From Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945The offer was rejected by the Japanese, despite the obvious advantage of accepting them, because they couldn’t accept Chiang Kai-shek’s permanence as ruler of the Nationalist regimen.If they had accepted, the Japanese would not have invaded French Indochina (September 1940) to encircle China, thus avoiding the US embargo against Japan (April 1941), making unnecessary to take over the remaining European possessions in South East Asia, thus butterflying away the attack on Pearl Harbor.The Japanese would have their continental empire in Korea and Manchuria, while the rest of China would be under Japan’s economic thumbs, while fighting a communist insurgency.

Why did China struggle so much against Japan in WW2?

i never ceased to be amused by the CCP formula fed masses that attributed the primary reason for the nationalists inability to kick ass the Japanese Chinese invasion forces  in no time flat to their "corruption". Using the same analogy - the present PLA - given the known world class corrupt status of China' governing CCP party, would fold like a deck of cards if ever engaged in warfare, but I digress,The KMT forces basically held off a much more superior modern military power - Japan for  8 years, tying up 2/3 of Japan's military resources, a sophisticated and well equipped force thats been preparing for years for its WW2 endeavours. The Imperial Japanese military had its first  air craft carrier in the early 1920, and at the beginning of WW2 had excellent fighter planes that rivalled the allies best equipment. Its navy fought on a equal basis with the Americans, and made short work with American and other European forces in south east Asia in the beginning of WW2. Not to mention its rout of the Russian forces earlier.China has been the "sick man of Asia" in comparison since the middle of 1850s, and walked over by every single foreign power that invaded it, in addition to the numerous internal rebellions till its overthrow in 1912. The numerous warlords that sprung up afterwards and their private armies that challenged a central power meant  considerable effort had to be effected by  Chiang to unify the fractured country, culminating in the northern reunification expedition that finally brought the country under nominal control under one administration - while having to deal with the CCP's attempt to sabotage its government.Its fiscal vaults are already quite bare to begin with after the Qing dynasty's overthrow, and after another 25 years of unrest and turmoil - one can imagine the resources available to the Nationalists to equip adequately the kind of military forces against a far superior force in the form of Japan.Nevertheless - the close to 4 million Chinese military casualties, essentially all KMT troops speaks to the heroic and nothing to be ashamed of accomplishment of Chiang's army in defending the Chinese peoples honour and strength of character in not giving up the fight. The Japanese had counted on only three months before China's surrender. They were awfully surprised.

Who played the main role in beating Japan in WW2? USSR, USA or China?

China kept the bulk of the IJA busy, but couldn’t beat it. Until near the end of the war, the IJA could go almost anywhere in China. It was restricted by its ability to hold what it took, as much as the resistance of the Chinese armed forces.The USSR didn’t attack Japan until after the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb. It invaded Manchuria on the day the Nagasaki bomb was dropped. Its role was, at most, to prove to the Japanese just how deep a hole they were in.The British empire & Commonwealth kept parts of the IJA busy in the SW Pacific & Burma, defeating them & pushing them back, & cleared the IJAAF & IJNAF from the skies of Burma.But the USA! - It sank the Imperial Japanese Navy, wiped out the IJNAF & that part of the IJAAF it faced, sank most of Japan’s merchant shipping, & reduced most of Japans military industries (& much of its civilian industries) to rubble, by the summer of 1945. The USAAF was running out of Japanese targets: it bombed my mother-in-law’s home town, despite its complete lack of military industries (I don’t think cultivated pearls are of military importance), presumably because it had a harbour & a rail junction. Being carried by her mother to a shelter as incendiaries fell is one of my mother-in-law’s earliest memories. The sort of total military superiority required for such an attack to be launched, one which served almost entirely just to give the B-29s something to do, is astounding.