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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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China bogged the Japanese army down in a brutal guerilla war that lasted nearly a decade. The inability of the Japanese to win the war in China sapped their resources and manpower rendering complete focus on their war with the Americans impossible. They had a place at the table when the conditions for the surrender of Japan were decided. Neither Stalin or the Western Allies considered them or their contributions to the war effort irrelevant.