To: elmatador who wrote (3551 ) 10/5/2019 8:51:22 PM From: Elroy Jetson Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13879 When Japan invaded Manchuria and northern China in 1931, Japan informed the US this was "an internal Japanese matter ". The US responded with an unbelievable act of barbarity - ending all scrap-metal shipments to Japan and closed the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. This hit Japan's economy particularly hard because 74% of Japan's scrap iron and 93% of Japan's copper came from the United States in 1938. On 28 July 1941, Japan invaded French Indochina in an effort to embargo all imports into China. - In response, only two days later on 1 August 1941, the US impulsively also cut-off all oil deliveries to Japan. Seven weeks later on November 20, Japan offered to withdraw its forces from southern Indochina and not to launch any attacks in southeast Asia provided the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands ceased aiding China against the Japanese invason and lifted their sanctions against Japan. But the American counter-proposal of 26 November 1941 required Japan to evacuate all of China unconditionally , and to conclude non-aggression pacts with Pacific powers. Asking Japan to withdraw from China proved too much for Japan's imperialists to accept, so they invaded Pearl Harbor eleven days later. .Today, China is the new imperialist and thinking ahead, China purchased the rare earth and many metals mines in America, Australia and Europe, "so they'll be in control ". With corporate papers in hand, China has laughably threatened to cut these nations off from their own mines if the US, Australia and Europe do not let the imperialist continue to invade surrounding nations.China's current imperialist leaders are actually this stupid , which perhaps explains how Japan so easily invaded China in 1931 and needed rescue from the US, Australia and Europe. China is very likely to injure itself by tripping on their shoelaces. Bad news for the Chinese people.