Before World War II, China was the richest in Asia except for Japan, right?

By the same token, Japan became strong after the Industrial Revolution. And China has always been semi-feudal and semi-colonial. Unable to develop the Industrial Revolution, gradually the **Empire** was turned back by the British.

At the beginning of the 18th century, China gained great wealth by exporting tea to countries around the world, and later the British ** was turned by the Chinese, so there was the "East India Company" of European powers. The East India Company used opium in exchange for the huge amount of tea consumed by the British, and in the course of this trade, the ** empire gradually became impoverished.

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It's a long story, one is the continuous civil war, and the other is learning and developing behind closed doors. The root cause of the problem lies in the isolation of the country during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which led to the economic and technological backwardness of the entire country and the rest of the world. If you don't have technology, you will be beaten, and if you don't have money, you will be beaten, and it's also because China's influence was too great before, and the whole world knows about the Chinese, the Tang people, porcelain, silk.

Who is it that doesn't rob you? In short, China's decline due to the direction of the country's decision-making has taken a big detour.

How many independent countries were there in Asia before World War II? So except for Japan, the situation is not better** If you simply talk about economic development, maybe Hong Kong and Singapore are better After all, the geographical advantage of economic development is better China's status is of course also very important, but in the political aspect. Economically, in the current words, the gap between the rich and the poor is too big, hehe, I hope LZ is satisfied with my...

China was the richest before opium was rampant.

**Imperial.

Before World War II, Japan was greatly affected by the economic crisis, but China was too busy with the civil war to develop its economy, let alone other Asian countries, so Japan was still the most developed at that time.

Before World War II, Asia was the richest in China, and despite the wars, it was also the richest, not Japan.

It's our China rich! During World War II, Japan's fiscal deficit was several times! Thirty-nine years ago, Germany gave military materials and the United States, and the Soviet Union gave us technicians to help build production.

To correct me: both Korea and Singapore were colonies at the time, ......

Strictly speaking, China was still the richest in Asia at the time (if you count all the money of the warlords at the time).

Before World War II, China was probably the richest. Although China has suffered humiliation in modern times, it is only the state that has always been formally unified.

China was not rich before World War II!

Before World War II, most of China had a similar standard of living to Japan, and in some places (Tohoku) it even exceeded the Japanese average.

But in terms of the level of modernization of the country as a whole, China was far from catching up with Japan before World War II. At that time, Japan had already completed industrialization and established a complete heavy industry system; At that time, China's heavy industry was basically zero, and the main component of GDP was agriculture.

The Japanese plundered China's wealth for almost decades. ** There are 21,000 tons. There are also various types of coal, minerals, etc. Destruction of the environment of raw materials, trees, etc.

According to statistics, Japan plundered 800 million tons of grain from the motherland, including 21,000 tons, and countless other mineral resources and cultural relics.

$562 billion (the value of 1945 dollars, when **** 35 US dollars, today **** 1843 US dollars) is so much money.

Personally, I think it should be a huge number, but in fact, wealth is only one aspect, and the most important thing is the pain that war brings to people that can never be forgotten.

Not poor, World War II was provoked by Japan and Germany, when the national strength was strong, fought China, fought Pearl Harbor in the United States, and participated in World War II.

You have to see who you compare yourself to. Japan has not had a good life since it got involved with the United States, and such a big consumption of the domestic people's lives is, of course, barely enough to eat and wear, but the United States is different, the people are still very rich, and they are basically not affected by the war.

At that time, the lower strata of Japanese society were living in poverty, and in the midst of the economic crisis, the lives of the lower strata were even more unsustainable, so they used the method of war to divert the economic and political contradictions in the country.

Japan was not poor at that time, at that time Japan had already embarked on the road of capitalism, the life of the people was already quite good, the invasion and occupation of several countries, such as our China, began in 1895. However, at that time, around 1935, all capitalist countries were suffering from a major economic crisis, and most of the people, including Japan, were unemployed, which was the direct cause of the Second World War.

Yes, World War II was caused by the world economic crisis, specifically, you can understand it when you learn high school history.

Although Japan obtained a large number of war materials through plunder and other means before World War II, but the war was very costly, Japan was extremely short of steel, food and other materials after 1939, and could import steel from the United States in the early stage, and then the United States stopped exporting steel to Japan, resulting in an extreme shortage of resources required for Japan's war, and various factors acted together to make Japan really poor in World War II.

At the time of World War II, Japan's economy was second only to the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.

1. At the beginning of World War II, the overall strength of the navy was the third in the world, but the main fleet was the first in the world.2. The area of the small country was only 370,000 square kilometers, and it occupied more than 7.96 million square kilometers of land at its largest.

China has 3.56 million square kilometers, Vietnam 320,000, Laos more than 100,000, Cambodia 180,000, Thailand 510,000, and half of Myanmar more than 300,000. 330,000 in Malaysia, 1.9 million in Indonesia, 100,000 in the Philippines, 5,000 square kilometers in Brunei, more than 300,000 in Guinea, 100,000 in Sakhalin, 220,000 in North Korea, 370,000 in Japan, 10,000 in Taiwan, and the Pacific islands are too small to count him.

Almost planted the sun flag in the eastern hemisphere.

Part was forced to "give" to the United States.

At the end of World War II, the Japanese army was defeated in the Philippines. The Filipino guerrillas discovered that the Japanese were transporting a large number of heavy boxes to a cave and sealing the exit with explosives. A major in the US Strategic Intelligence Agency, who was with the guerrillas at the time, remembered the location of the treasure cache.

After the end of World War II, the ** re-blew the cave and found that the box was full of **. Between 1945 and 1948, tens of billions of dollars worth of ** were shipped to the United States.

Some of them are still the "private property" of the Emperor of Japan.

Although Japan was defeated in the war, the Japanese imperial family made a windfall. During Japan's war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, the Japanese emperor's private wealth soared nearly threefold. At the market value at the time, these assets were more than $100 billion.

Although the assets of the Japanese Imperial Family were divided by the United States, it is conservatively estimated that in the early years after the end of World War II, the Japanese Imperial Family still had assets of tens of billions of dollars. These huge amounts of wealth are enough for the Japanese imperial family to eat for hundreds of thousands of years.

More has become the rapid rise of Japan after World War II primitive capital accumulation, Japan's rapid rise after World War II is not a miracle at all, but inevitable, because they have most of the wealth looted from various countries in World War II as primitive accumulation, there is a large market in the United States, and in World War II, Japan also paid attention to the protection of engineering talents.

There are many destroyed in the war, such as the Awa Maru that was sunk by the U.S. military, and the legend says that there are a large number of ** on the skull of the Pekingese, and the ones that were transported to the Japanese mainland were basically taken away by the Americans, and basically all of them were transported to Taiwan by Chiang Bald in China, and other Asian countries have nothing to grab except resources.

The Japanese economy had collapsed at that time, so what wealth was there?