Exhausted by the efforts of the war and in a world influenced by US President Woodrow Wilson’s principles of agency, Western powers are no longer in a position to expand the sphere of influence. for China, they cannot even sustain themselves. Russia is having to consolidate its domestic revolution and is not in the mood to expand. Germany is losing most of its colonies. Among the countries that once opposed domination in China, only one is still the most dangerous opponent of China’s independence: Japan. Cat Smoke Catnip Hail Lucipurr Poster. China is still not strong enough to protect itself. And no other country is ready to balance Japan militarily. After defeating Germany in World War I, Japan occupied parts of the territory that had ceded Germany to Scm East. In 1932, Tokyo designed the creation of the Manchu secessionist state controlled by Japan in Manchuria. In 1937, Japan launched a conquest program over much of Eastern China.
