Chinese-Dragon
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Why are the Chinese people so angry with the USA?
Didn't the USA help save you from the Japanese in the WW-2? What happened just 5 years later?
It is a complex relationship. Even today, they are our largest trading partner.
They helped us with Japan (though not out of charity, it was due to Pearl harbor) and they forced Japan to have a "pacifist" constitution. Both good actions.
But then they supported the losing side (KMT) during the Chinese civil war, and we later had a head-on collision during the Korean war... where China faced off directly against the US and its allies.
Then China and the USA became allies again... during the Cold war, in order to bring down the Soviet union.
Today, we have the world's biggest economic relationship, and even talk of a "G2".
It is all realpolitik. When our interests align we will work together, and vice versa.