China's modern history is a history of humiliation and oppression, constantly being invaded by imperialism, forced to sign various unequal treaties, and remember that in the Treaty of Nanking, the defeated Qing government not only had to cut off land but also pay reparations, even after the fall of the Manchu Qing, China was still paying reparations.
At the end of the Second World War, China finally ended the War of Resistance Against Japan in victory, waking up from the nightmare of being invaded and oppressed for many years, the 14-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression China suffered heavy casualties and the economy withered back 180 years, but why did it give up a huge reparation of 120 billion yuan after Japan surrendered? The so-called revenge with virtue will not reach such a point, right?
The Second World War is a catastrophe in human history, this man-made catastrophe, nearly 60 countries in the world participated in it, more than 2 billion people were involved in the war, the total casualties of the military and civilians in the war were about 90 million people, the economic losses reached more than 5 trillion US dollars, and the 14 years of Japan's invasion of China caused a devastating blow to China.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the total loss of Chinese reached more than 50 million, The loss of Chinese property and war consumption reached 650 billion US dollars, and China's culture suffered devastation.
In view of Japan's atrocities during World War II, in order to prevent the revival of Japanese militarist ideas, the Allies set up a compensation commission to discuss Japan's war reparations to various countries.
As a defeated country, Japan really needs to make economic compensation to the victorious countries, and after two years of deliberations, according to preliminary estimates, Japan should pay more than $120 billion in war reparations to china, which is only one-third of the economic losses suffered by our country, and even so, this is also astronomical for Japan, which was defeated at that time.
In order to win the Second World War, Japan almost mobilized the strength of the whole country to fight the war, and after the defeat, it was almost poor and white, and the pants pockets were cleaner than the face, and the victorious countries only demanded the most basic compensation for the repair of the building out of sympathy.
In the four years since the delay, the pattern between countries after the war has undergone new changes, and the United States has become the world hegemon, standing at the center of the United Nations and pointing fingers at other countries.
The Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in Taiwan in the War of Liberation of China, the founding of New China, and the depression in Japan after the war, the people's hunger and clothing have become problems, all thanks to the support of the United States.
Faced with its Japanese allies in the Far East, the United States wanted to support Japan's economic independence, and he demanded that countries give up Japan's war reparations in a bossy posture.
At that time, New China had not yet joined the United Nations, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away on the side of the strait, signed the "China-Japan Peace Treaty" with Japan in order to enhance his precarious political status, announcing that he would abandon Japan's war terms.
The Chinese government was furious when it heard the news, pointing out in a public statement that the Japanese militarists had hurt tens of millions of Chinese, causing China to suffer hundreds of billions of dollars in public and private property, and that China had the right to demand compensation for those losses.
However, no matter how much the Chinese government complains about condemnation and does not integrate into the circles of the United Nations, the isolated new China naturally has no right to speak, and japan has followed behind the United States and hated China.
With the support of the United States, Japan's economy has developed by leaps and bounds, and by 1968, the Japanese economy had jumped to the second place in the world.
After the founding of New China, it did its best to join the United Nations, its international status was increasingly enhanced, and the United States realized the failure of its own foreign policy after more than 20 years of isolation policy toward New China, which coincided with the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States gradually showed a downward trend, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated, and the United States had to reconsider establishing relations with China.
In 1972, President Nixon visited China, Sino-US relations broke the ice, and Nixon, who got off the plane, stretched out his hands to Zhou Enlai from afar, and Zhou Enlai immediately greeted him, and this time the handshake across the Pacific Ocean not only changed the trajectory of Sino-US relations, but also mysteriously changed the world pattern.
Zhou Enlai said with a smile: "Your hand has reached out to the world's most vast ocean, and we have not interacted for 25 years." ”
On January 1, 1979, China and the United States formally established diplomatic relations, saying that they would isolate China together, and the Hand of the United States made the Japanese authorities confused, just as the so-called no eternal enemy, only eternal interests, the Japanese authorities also rubbed their fists and brewed to restore diplomatic relations with China.
In the early days, the Chinese Government was very indifferent to the Japanese authorities' overtures, but for the sake of the fundamental interests of the two peoples and peace in Asia and the world, the Chinese Government finally decided to abandon its previous suspicions and agreed to the request of China and Japan to establish diplomatic relations.
On September 29, 1972, the Chinese Government and the Japanese Government signed the Joint Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of Japan, which declared that China and Japan had declared an end to the abnormal diplomatic situation.
The Japanese side sincerely apologized for the tremendous damage caused to the Chinese people by past wars, and the Chinese Government, in order to show its sincerity in establishing diplomatic relations, announced that it would renounce its demand for war reparations against the Japanese state for the sake of friendship between the Chinese and Japanese peoples.
At this point, the Chinese government can truly give up Japan's war reparations.
After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Japan provided four loans to China, with a total amount of 2.65 trillion yen, which was also a blessing in disguise for China's economic development at that time, but it is clear that our country gave up war reparations and exchanged interest-free loans for itself.
By 2000, Japan had provided China with a special loan of 17.2 billion yen to help renovate The Beijing Subway and Xi'an Xianyang Airport.
In 2008, Japan provided China with its last loan, which amounted to 46.3 billion yen, equivalent to 3.1 billion yuan at that time, during which Sino-Japanese relations were considered good-neighborly and friendly, mutually beneficial and win-win.
Remember that when Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations were normal, Zhou Enlai once proposed: Words must be believed, deeds must be fruitful, and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka responded: Letter is the foundation of everything.
Japan has turned its back on its original diplomatic track, shown a confrontational posture in the historical issue and the Taiwan issue, regarded the increasingly powerful China as a thorn in its eye, and repeatedly done things that seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
Looking at the history of sino-Japanese exchanges of more than two thousand years, China and Japan can only get along with each other in friendship and must never confront and break up; the so-called unity is mutually beneficial, and fighting is two injuries.