As we all know, ancient China was very strong, but after the end of the Qing Dynasty, this situation was greatly changed, due to the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, the Qing Dynasty has been reduced to a state of being bullied, but even so, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty did not show any signs of awakening, after many wars failed, even Japan began to step into China, plundering wealth and resources, and later Japan's appetite was also getting bigger and bigger, and stared at the northeast region of China at that time, for this reason, Japan also fought a war with Tsarist Russia in the northeast in 1904, and in this war, an American general came to China as an observer, and after witnessing the Russo-Japanese War, he came to a very prejudicial conclusion: Neither China nor Russia would pose a threat to the world, but only this country was the most terrible.
This general was the famous American five-star general Douglas MacArthur, who was only a small captain officer when the Russo-Japanese War broke out in China and honed himself in the Philippines. As MacArthur's father, because of his strong interest in China, and has always hoped that he can become a military attaché in China, so after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, MacArthur and his father came to northeast China together, and when the war was over, MacArthur was also specially arranged by his father to do a more in-depth investigation in the northeast region, which included personally visiting the military bases of the Japanese army at that time, and also went to Southeast Asian countries to do a certain investigation, only eight months, MacArthur analyzed the situation in Asia very thoroughly.
In fact, in the process of MacArthur's inspection, he found that many Japanese officers at that time were very crazy, and with the arming of a certain ideology, they often had a gambling mentality when facing war, and in order to achieve the goal, they did not hesitate to use all means, even if the final battle of the fish was broken, Japan would not easily obey, once there was an opportunity, it would retaliate in the future. Recognizing this, MacArthur was also deeply afraid. It was through these careful observations that MacArthur made such a very prescient remark: "In the future, China and Russia will not be enough to worry, and japan's rise is unstoppable, and it will be the biggest threat to the United States in the future!" ”
For MacArthur's assertion of such a statement, even his father at that time did not quite believe it, because after all, Japan at that time was still only a small country, compared to Tsarist Russia, Japan's power was also very different, just when everyone thought that Tsarist Russia would win, the result was unexpected, Japan not only won the tsarist Russia, a powerful country, but also became the source of World War II Asia in the future, and when Japan's ambitions were extremely inflated, it even declared war with the United States and launched the Pacific War. The United States initially suffered Japan's losses.
It turns out that MacArthur's assertions at that time were indeed fulfilled, and it is no wonder that after Maxus left Japan, he said: "In the future, China and Russia will develop very rapidly, and they will naturally become one of the strong opponents of the United States, but do not ignore Japan, one day, Japan will become a threat to the United States, even the whole world!" ”。