China is a huge country, that is, Japan can occupy China's 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 people, we are still far from defeat. We still have a great deal of strength to fight Japan, who will have to fight defensively on her rear at all times throughout the war. The disunity and imbalance of China's economy was advantageous to the war against Japan. For example, if Shanghai was cut off from the rest of China, the damage to China would not be as serious as the damage to the United States if New York was cut off from the rest of the United States. Japan was able to blockade the coast of China, but it could not blockade the northwest, southwest and west of China. Therefore, the central point of the problem is that all the people of China should unite and establish a united anti-Japanese front. This is what we have been saying for a long time.
Japan is a relatively small country and lacks manpower, military, financial and material resources to withstand a prolonged war. The Japanese ruler wants to solve this problem by war, but again, it will achieve the opposite of what it wants, that is to say, by waging war in order to solve this problem, it will end up increasing the difficulty by war, and war will consume even what it has. Finally, fourthly, while Japan will be able to receive assistance from the international fascist countries, at the same time it will not be able to avoid encountering an international opposition force which will outweigh the power of its international assistance. This latter force will gradually grow and will eventually not only cancel out the assistance of the former, but will also exert its pressure on Japan itself. This is the law of the loser, and it is born out of Japan's warlike nature. To sum up, Japan's strength was the strength of its war power, and its weakness was the regressive and barbaric nature of its war, the insufficiency of its manpower and material resources, and the lack of help from the international situation. These are the characteristics of the Japanese side.
China was again a very large country, with a large land mass, large material resources, many men and many soldiers, capable of supporting a long war, which was again an opposite contrast to Japan. Finally, fourthly, the vast international assistance that arose from the progressive and just nature of China's war was again the opposite of Japan's failure to help. To sum up, China's shortcoming is its weakness in war power, but its strength lies in the progressiveness and righteousness of its war nature, in the fact that it is a big country, and in the fact that it has a lot of help in the international situation. These are the characteristics of China.
In this way, Japan's military, economic and political organization were strong, but its war was regressive and barbaric, its human and material resources were insufficient, and its international situation was unfavorable. China, on the other hand, was weaker in military, economic and political organization, but it was in an era of progress, its war was progressive and just, and it had a great power that was strong enough to support a protracted war, and most of the countries in the world would want to assist China. These are the fundamental and contradictory features of the Sino-Japanese war. These are the basic contradictory features of the Sino-Japanese war, which defined and regulated all the political policies and military strategies and tactics of the two sides, and which defined and regulated the durability of the war and the fact that the final victory belonged to China and not to Japan. War is a contest of these characteristics.
The international conditions, which made it possible for China not to be isolated in the war, were also unprecedented in history. Historically, whether China's wars or India's wars, they have been isolated. But today we are confronted with an unprecedentedly vast and profound people's movement that has taken place or is taking place in the world and its assistance to China. The revolution in Russia in 1917 was also assisted by the world, and the Russian workers and peasants were victorious as a result, but the scale of that assistance was not as vast and the nature of that assistance was not as profound as it is today. The people's movement in the world today is developing on an unprecedented scale and in an unprecedented depth. The existence of the Soviet Union is an even more important factor in international politics today, and it is bound to assist China with a great deal of enthusiasm, a phenomenon which was completely unknown twenty years ago. All this creates and creates important conditions indispensable for the final victory of China. A great deal of direct assistance, which is not available at present, is still to come, but China is in a position of progress and great power to prolong the war and to facilitate and wait for international assistance. (17) In addition to the fact that Japan is a small country with little land, few goods, few men and few soldiers, and China is a large country with a large land, many goods, many men and many soldiers, there is also the contrast between the contrast between the contrast of strength and weakness and the contrast between the contrast of a small country, regressing and having little help, and the contrast between a large country, progressing and having much help, and that is the basis on which China will not perish. Although the contrast between the strong and the weak stipulates that Japan can have a certain period of time and a certain degree of rampage in China, China will inevitably have to go through a difficult journey, the war of resistance against Japan is a protracted war rather than a decisive war; however, the contrast between the small countries, retrogression, oligarchy, and the big countries, progress, and many helpers stipulates that Japan can not be rampant to the end, and will inevitably suffer a final defeat, and that China will not perish, and will inevitably achieve a final victory.