The communist Chinese didn't even fight the Japanese, mao thanked Japan for the invasion so kmt can be distracted and left mao alone to build the communist army. The modern day anti-Japan nationalist sentiment from China is pure performative bullshit to distract them from the fact half of their country makes less than $200 a month, those currently have jobs are at risk of not getting paid for months or just flat fired while their houses lose 40% of purchase value.
The communist Chinese didn't even fight the Japanese, mao thanked Japan for the invasion so kmt can be distracted and left mao alone to build the communist army. The modern day anti-Japan nationalist sentiment from China is pure performative bullshit to distract them from the fact half of their country makes less than $200 a month, those currently have jobs are at risk of not getting paid for months or just flat fired while their houses loses 40% of purchase value.