
Pearl Harbor episode 2: America on the eve of war
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The US's Sympathy for China
There is a mixed feeling in the united states to do with race and questions of equality. Japan had tried to have a racial equality clause included in the treaty, a proposal that was rejected by the us. But at the same time, you see reflected quite a stron orientalist bias against japan and the japanese. There are some reasons that the united states has this strong sympathy for china. Some of that is because of the huge market potential of a if ch China becomes more developed,. And then the idea of small r republicanism.
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