China is calling japan's bluff in terms, i would say, of being a true great power. They have the land mass or raw materials nation ot to put them in the very top class of great powers. If you locate bejing up at michigan's upper peninsula, that would put shanghai over by washington, d c, canton, down by new orleans. And chong king would be in southwestern kans imagine somebody landing on the east coast and trying to conquer everything to the mississippi. Now imagine it's a small island nation with about 70 to 80 million people that less than what 75 years ago, was living under a military show gun and