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Originally Posted by activeStick
It's odd that China is considered as one of the victors since back then, they were a third world country with a terrible military and weapons, which is a big reason why the Japanese were able to commit the atrocities they carried out on women and children during the Rape of Nanking. China was so irrelevant back then I'm not sure I would consider them victors of the war other than the fact that their invaders were destroyed by the Americans with the use of nuclear weapons.
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Back then the US wanted China as part of it, while the Soviet Union did not. The seat originally belonged to the government of what is now Taiwan and then shifted to the PRC in 1970s.