Some historians like to refer to that whole period as an era of undeclared war between an and china. Neither side, by the way, wanted to declare war for different reasons. The japanese are trying to make it look like nothing's really going on here. Nothing to see here. Great powers, it's not a war. We have a series of incidents going on in shanghai which will go on until march 19 32. At one point, you'll have,. at one point,you'll have more than 1 million troops fighting each others' back. And if you believe the army defenders out there who were trying to explain what they were doing, they're going