Even if Japan did not provoke a Pacific war, it would not be able to defeat China. In October 1938, Guangzhou and Wuhan fell one after another, but the Japanese did not have the strength to continue the large-scale offensive, so the war was fought

Even if Japan did not provoke a Pacific war, it would not be able to defeat China.

In October 1938, Guangzhou and Wuhan fell one after another, but japan did not have the strength to continue the large-scale offensive, so the war entered a phase of stalemate. Until June 1941, when the Soviet-German war broke out, the Soviet Union was no longer able to support China, and China was arguably the most isolated. But in the six months leading up to Pearl Harbor in June and December 1941, japan's situation in China did not change much. It can be seen from this that even if the United States and the Soviet Union did not help China, China could consume Japan to death, but for a long time.