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18 Sep 2010
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September 18, 1931
9.18 incident 79 years ago
was the first step in Japan's plan to conquer
China,
while conquering China is the key step
towards Japan's goal of dominating the
world.
Japan almost succeeded.
With just 900 armed men Japanese troops
drove out 200,000 Chinese forces
stationed in the three northeast
provinces, owning to the non-resistance
"strategy" put into the
practice by the Nationalist Government in
Nanjing, which led to the full
invasion of the almost entire China in
the following few years by Japan, whose
ambition to expand beyond the confinement
of the islands is deeply imprinted in its
national gene and would not be persuaded
to abandon but can only be deterred by
force.
Since then Chinese viewed
9.18 as the day of national humiliation.
The biggest lesson Chinese
learned from 9.18 is that to compromise
without principle in face of alien
aggression would only bring the total
demise of China as a nation.
Japanese
marines pose in Shanghai Zhabei District
(闸北区) in
August 1937.
Japan
invaded and occupied Shenyang in China's
northeast with the help of their
collaborators from the Manchurian tribes
on September 18, 1931, but the President Chiang Kai-shek
and his Nationalist Government only declared war against
the occupation forces ten years later, by
then Japanese Army had already had half
of Chinese territory under its control.
January
1933, Japanese Army ascended Shanhai
Pass (山海关
), the gateway to the
ancient capital.
Since
the Nationalist Government decided not to
confront the invasion force, it only took
little more than one year for Japanese
Army to march to the front door of Beijing from Shenyang, leaving
the vast region in between under Japanese
rule.
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