Japan invaded China for 14 years. Why did you give up after invading India once?

During World War II, Japan invaded China 14 years and paid a huge price. In the process, Japan invaded Southeast Asia and other countries. After successively invading Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, it stopped, and only once invaded India, it gave up. Why did Japan give up? India is a British colony, and invading India can effectively contain Britain and coordinate the axis countries of Europe (Germany and Italy). Why doesn't Japan do this? This has both historical and practical factors.

1: Japan's "Conquering the Chinese Dream"

China and Japan are neighbors, but they are not very friendly. Since 663 AD, five wars have broken out between China and Japan, namely, the Battle of Baijiangkou in the Tang Dynasty, the Sino-Japanese War in the Yuan Dynasty, the Korean War in the Ming Dynasty, the Sino-Japanese War in the Qing Dynasty and modern War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The reason for the outbreak of war between China and Japan is largely due to Japan's external expansion. Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the greatest and most aggressive figures in Japanese history. His foreign expansion route set the tone for Japan's foreign expansion. My (Toyotomi Hideyoshi's) ambition is to visit North Korea and spy on China.

This is not only Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambition, but also the national policy of Japanese foreign expansion. At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi thought that Japan had settled in China. In order to expand abroad, Toyotomi Hideyoshi decided to cross the sea and invade the Korean peninsula, and said in a letter to his concubine: "In my lifetime, I swear to incorporate the territory of the Tang Dynasty into my territory." Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't know that China had changed dynasties, and the Japanese's history of China remained in the Tang Dynasty. However, this reflects the thoughts of Japanese politicians, who have deeply implanted the idea of external expansion in their minds since the Tang Dynasty, and the core factor of external expansion is to incorporate Tang (China) into Japanese territory.

Since the Tang Dynasty, China has been the primary target of Japanese militarists and politicians' external expansion. There are certain historical reasons for this. After all, the most powerful and richest country in Japan's eyes at that time was Tang. Conquering China has been a Japanese dream for thousands of years. Not to mention Japan's invasion of China in modern times, I dare say that Japan will still invade China when it becomes stronger in the future.

China has a vast territory and rich resources.

An important factor of Japan's invasion of China is its vast territory and rich resources. We can often see similar problems on the Internet. If Qin Shihuang had not died, how far could his territory have expanded? I can tell you that it won't expand too much, because all the good places in Asia are basically absorbed by China. In this land, China ancient civilization has been lost for thousands of years, while the other three ancient civilizations have already disappeared in the long river of history.

China's gold resources are around1.5-20,000 tons, and its proven reserves rank seventh in the world. In 2008, China became the largest gold producer in the world.

China's silver production is second only to Mexico and Peru. In 2002, its silver output reached 2200 tons, making it one of the largest silver producers in the world.

China was once labeled as an "oil-poor country", but only 60 years after the anniversary of the oilfield, it produced 2.4 billion tons of crude oil, and China had already thrown the label of an oil-poor country into the Atlantic Ocean.

Up to 2004, China has discovered 17 1 medium mineral resources, with nearly 1.8 million mineral areas and more than 7,000 large mineral areas. Rare earth, tungsten, petroleum, gypsum and coal are all important materials, ranking among the top in the world.

It is no exaggeration to say that this kind of land is vast and rich in resources. The Japanese covet such good land, so they invade China frequently. Compared with India, although the land is also large, things are not so rich. The simplest point is that India's arable land is larger than China's, but its grain output is less than half that of China. Of course, large land is a factor that affects agriculture, but good land quality is also an indispensable factor. China is famous for its rich minerals, while India is rich in spices.

During the war, Japan was seriously short of industrial raw materials, so it valued China, a country rich in minerals, rather than a place rich in spices. Because you can exchange guns for spices, but you can't exchange spices for guns. Especially in wartime, the quantity and quality of weapons determine a country's right to speak. With the occupation of China and unlimited supply, Japan can use it as a springboard to radiate the whole Southeast Asia and become the Asian hegemon. However, when Japan occupied India, it got nothing, and it still needed a lot of money to maintain supplies.

3. Japan is beyond its reach.

Japanese land is not as big as China's, so food production can't feed more people. Land and population have become the ceiling of Japan's development, and it is beyond our power not to invade India. During World War II, the Japanese army invested more than 4 million troops in China (at its peak), and even sent troops to invade some countries in Southeast Asia. It is really impossible to send troops to attack India. In addition, Japan invaded Myanmar late, because it didn't get through the mainland traffic line. Japan can't support the war by fighting, and it needs to pay a huge price to transport materials from the mainland, especially when it invaded India. Japan's supply line is too long.

There are also factors that are not acclimatized. Japan is close to China, and both Japan and North China belong to temperate monsoon climate. But further south, it's different. South China has a subtropical monsoon climate, while India has a tropical monsoon climate. The climate gap between Japan and India is relatively large, and the lack of physical resistance is easy to acclimatize. In the Battle of Impal, the Japanese soldiers were seriously acclimatized, the troops caught a cold in a large area, and their combat effectiveness was greatly damaged. The Japanese army suffered 25,000 casualties in this battle and paid a huge price, which ended in a fiasco.

When it comes to the battle of Impala, we have to pay attention to the British counterattack. Before that, let me tell you a rumor. You know, India is a British colony, and India is the jewel in the crown of the Queen of England. This sentence made many people misunderstand India. Many people think that India is also rich in minerals. Actually, it's not. The East India Company gave Queen Victoria of England a diamond (Mountain of Light), which was made in India. Over time, people misunderstood the importance of India. For a long time, India has been sending diamonds and spices to Britain, but it has not sent a lot of important materials such as minerals, oil and food.

In wartime, a handful of spices and a pile of industrial raw materials must be expensive. I use industrial raw materials as weapons, and then put a gun to your head and ask you to give me spices? Do you dare not give it to them? Of course, if you point a spice at my head and ask me if I will give you a weapon, I will definitely blow your head off with a gun.

India has been sending spices to Britain for a long time, and Britain has gained a lot of benefits, which will inevitably take into account India's security. When Japan invaded India, Britain organized a counterattack, that is, the Battle of Impal. The combat effectiveness of the British army is still very objective. Japan's combat effectiveness dropped sharply because of acclimatization, and Britain defeated the Japanese army. If the Japanese army had not been acclimatized, the war might have been more difficult, but the outcome would not have changed. With the end of the battles of Kursk and Guadalcanal, the Axis countries have lost the initiative. In fact, the Japanese invaded India not because the Japanese wanted to invade, but because Germany wanted Japan to contain Britain. However, under the attack of the British, Indian and Chinese expeditionary forces, the Japanese army was unable to attack India and could only end in failure.

Summary: The reason why the Japanese attacked China was that they wanted to fight (historical factors), were advantageous (vast territory and rich resources) and could fight (short distance). The reasons why Japan doesn't attack India are: it doesn't want to fight (forced by Germany), it can't (India's spices are also available in other Southeast Asian countries), and it can't fight (the distance is far and the troops are few).