Sarah Paine
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So when the Japanese go into Manchuria in 1931, we want them out.
We don't ask, well, why are you doing this?
And their answer would be, well, hey, you passed the Holly Smoot tariff.
That means we're trade dependent.
Whom are we going to trade with?
And once you did the tariff, everyone retaliated.
So you've now shut down international trade.
So we need an empire that's big enough to survive.
So that's why we're in Manchuria.
And by the way, there are way too many communists here.
We got to get rid of those.
And then in 1937, when they up,
the ante going into the rest of China.
We didn't inquire what's going on.
And what the Japanese want to do is wall off communism, don't want that.
And then they want to stabilize China so that you can have some productive economic growth.
And if you go, well, what were U.S.
post-war objectives for China?
Ooh, sounds remarkably familiar.
Communists out, stabilize the place.