lol, the age of Chinese hegemony is over. That ended when we defeated you in the 1st Sino Japanese War.
You just defeated the Beiyang Navy, which can only be seen a warlord force, another Chinese Navy, Nanyang Navy, was intact. When your troops marched on our land, they even hadn't encountered any effective attack from the forces of the Qing dynasty, many forces of Qing never fired a gun, even the Queen Ci Xi was grandly celebrating her birthday. That is the late time of Qing dynasty, the central government of Qing has been far weaker than the time when it was established, and the countless local powers/warlords have formed in China, which could overthrow the regime of Qing in any time and was seen the real threat by Qing dynast. So ceding territory and paying indemnities was acceptable for Qing dynast, because foreign invaders cannot threat their dominance in China. That was all things about the so-called 'victory' you have indulged in over one hundred years.
All the nations in your borders are vehemently nationalistic and see relations with you for purely trade-based basis.
ergo, Viet Nam, Thai Land, Laos, Cambodia, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Kazakhstan, et al.
This supposed return to the 'old order' is a fantasy by you and many other Chinese. There will be no return to the 'old order'.
Nope, The dynamic change of relative strength will lead to the change of the order in political system sooner or later.
Every thing changes, and never use the standards that only worked tens of years or one or two hundred years to evaluate the long future. If we don't like the current international political principle, we will change that sooner or later. We are/will be enough patient and confident to realize that.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.---John F. Kennedy
Learn to live with it.
Japan has always resisted Chinese hegemony, and will do what we can to maintain balance.
Learn to live with that aspect.
It is US not you, you are nothing.
The our wars against Hun, Turk, Mongol, which were far more powerful than you Japanese, all lasted many hundred years, some won and some lost, but finally we win forever, they were eliminated. All our near modern wars with Japan carried on in the time when we were very very weak. We are enough patient to realize all the victories belonging to us, not like some stupid one that fantasied annihilating our nation by three months.
The trauma the so-called century of humiliation has given us was nothing compared with that we have experienced. The glories your nation got in one hundred years are not worth mentioning.
For Japan, too far from the paradise, too close to China. learn to face the truth and learn to live with it.