After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States finally completely cut off economic exchanges with Japan and instead provided limited support for China's War of Resistance. From the end of 1941 to the end of the War of Resistance, the United States provided China with a total of $778 million in aid, the main purpose of which was the War of Resistance, but how much was used on the front line of the War of Resistance? Probably only half.
Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States was Japan's largest resource provider. When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, 90 percent of Japan's copper, more than 60 percent of its oil, steel, and rubber were supplied by the United States, so much so that then U.S. Secretary of State Stimson said: Everyone in the world knows that Japan has two allies, Germany and Italy, but in fact, the United States is Japan's biggest ally.
Without the support of the United States, Japan would not have been able to sustain it for three years. The pre-war reserves of $180 billion and 500 tons of gold ran out by 1939, and Japan had no choice but to launch an offensive into Southeast Asia to grab more resources. By the end of 1940, Japan was in huge debt in its economic dealings with the United States, and it was only then that the United States denounced it. War of aggression is not waged everywhere for them, but because they owe money and do not pay it back.
Deep smoke billowing Pearl Harbor
In the eyes of the United States, everything is business, Japan slaughters innocent Chinese people, it does not matter if they make their own money, what morality, while playing! It wasn't until the Japanese sneaked up on Pearl Harbor and the Americans were beaten that things changed. The essence of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was that Lao Lai could not afford to pay back the money, and decided to take a desperate risk to beat the creditor to death, and as a result, he was killed by the creditor.
Since then, the United States has provided limited assistance to China under the Lend-Lease Act. It is said to be limited because China is also in the camp of the Allies, holding back a large number of Japanese armed forces, but receiving much less assistance than other Allied members. By the time of Japan's surrender in 1945, U.S. aid to China totaled $778 million, compared to $9 billion to the Soviet Union and $28 billion to Britain.
Churchill firing a Sten submachine gun
China received only 8.6 percent of the Soviet Union's aid and Britain's 2.7 percent. But even so, Churchill complained to Roosevelt that "there was too much aid to China" and continued to misappropriate and squeeze aid supplies to China.
In the summer of 1942, the British army was defeated from Egypt, and the situation in North Africa was in jeopardy. So all the bombers that were scheduled to fly to China were asked for by the British, and none of them were given to China. The 100 transport planes scheduled for Flight to China were also taken by the British, leaving only 43 for China. So much so that Song Meiling asked Roosevelt whether the United States still needs to maintain the Chinese battlefield? Every time Britain loses, it takes away a batch of Chinese equipment, so that there is no need for China to fight any longer.
The American Flying Tigers, their essence is the same armed contractor as Blackwater
The least amount of aid the United States gave to China was so that China would not withdraw from the war because it could not hold on, and used the flesh and blood of Chinese to drag Japan to death. But is it that this pitiful amount of aid is all used on the front line of the War of Resistance? No!
For the War of Resistance, although this batch of materials is small, for individuals, it is tantamount to a windfall from heaven. From Song Ziwen, who facilitated this aid, to the commander of the theater, the small section chief who managed the supplies, and even Chennault of the Flying Tigers, everyone attached to this body like a blood-sucking locust, regardless of the fact that the body was dying, only to suck itself up and swell and shine.
Song Ziwen was instrumental in promoting aid to China, but at the same time he fattened himself
How much Song Ziwen intercepted from it is unknown, but the Encyclopædia Britannica records that "he was the richest man in the world". Worse than Song Ziwen is Tang Enbo, today with the assistance of the United States, the day after tomorrow some of the most popular items will appear in the hands of the Japanese, in exchange for daily necessities and then sold at high prices to the people, and used to walk these items, is also the United States to provide a large truck.
Tang Enbo, known as the "water drought locust soup"
When Yu Xianggui was defeated, Commander Tang used these trucks to carry his family and belongings. Soldiers on the front line wear straw shoes and eat rice mixed with sand, but American biscuits, milk powder, and military uniforms appear on the black market. Maybe that's why these people lost their country in just a few years.