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The Relationship Between China and Japan
There's a real emotional re balancing that goes on between china and japan. By the early twentieth century, japan was the more powerful actor in regional and global politics. And therefore there was a strong sense amongst many of china's elites at that time: we have to learn from japan. But i think there is also an ambivent set of feelings on both sides. There's little doubt about this idea of panasianism as they moved into a position where they were looking to lord it over the other nations.