Chapter 171: Summary Report on the World War (Part II)

4. East Asia

In the 10-year war that has just ended, East Asia, with its large population and vast land, is obviously another major battlefield no less than Europe. However, when it came to counting war losses in East Asia www.biquge.info the Commission encountered many troubles and controversies, the biggest of which was the Chinese battlefield.

First, there is a lot of debate about how to define the point at which China began to enter a state of war. Since the fall of the last feudal dynasty that ruled China in 1912, China has been mired in a series of civil wars and famines, which have not subsided until the outbreak of World War III. The Chinese comrades thought that it should be counted from the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War, but in the Committee's view, this was as absurd as counting the casualties of the First World War in the next two world wars - when the Civil War began, the First World War had not yet broken out!

Eventually, as a result of mutual compromise between the two sides, China's entry into the World War was set at September 18, 1931, the date of the Japanese attack on Manchuria. In this way, among all the countries in the world, China and Japan were the first to enter the war.

Secondly, China's population losses during the 18-year war are also an incredibly confusing account. According to the Chinese comrades, China had a total population of about 400 million before the war with Japan, and then because of the war that lasted for so many years and the catastrophe and famine during the unusually low temperature climate in the world, 80 million to 90 million people died. The Committee initially accepted the above arguments. The problem, however, is that, according to the first census completed by the new Chinese government in December 1949, China's current population is not more than 300 million as the committee had envisioned, but a staggering 530 million -- that is, if the previous figures are not wrong, then it means that China's total population has increased by 130 million instead of decreasing rather than decreasing after two world wars full of blood and corpses, and two "summerless years" of the world's unusually low temperature climate and famine. That's as much as the total population of three pre-war Frances!

All the statisticians in the committee said that this absurd result was simply unacceptable, claiming that humans are not rats and rabbits with super reproductive ability, and that it is absolutely impossible for them to have such an exaggerated reproductive rate, even if they are Chinese - so there must be a big problem with these figures. However, despite these controversies, the Commission can only temporarily adopt the current preliminary conclusion that China has lost between 80 million and 90 million people in the war and famine that has swept the world, pending further findings.

Then, at the beginning of World War III, the two most prosperous port cities in China, Shanghai and Hong Kong, were destroyed by the US nuclear strikes, and then the fighting between the Chinese comrades and the reactionary government and the separatist rebels in the frontiers continued intermittently until 1949.

However, although the years of war in China are quite long, in general, the intensity of the war is much lower than that of the European theater. During World War II, China fought only a large-scale war with Japan, and the confrontation lasted far more than the pitched battles. As for the intensity of the Chinese civil war, it is not worth mentioning in Europe, where hundreds of thousands of troops are said to have fought on a regular basis, and only a few hundred dead and wounded have been decided. Then, apart from the two nuclear strikes at the beginning of World War III and a few months of small-scale intervention and invasion operations by tens of thousands of miscellaneous American and British troops, the Chinese Red Army did not actually participate in World War III, and the intensity of the Chinese Red Army's battles with various rebel forces in the northwest and southwest of the country during the same period was only equivalent to the suppression of banditry, or the suppression of colonial rebellions by European armies in the past. All of these factors combined to make China finally preserve such a large number of people.

Therefore, since 1947, the new Chinese government, which has established itself, has begun large-scale post-war reconstruction work, and has now basically repaired all the railways it owned before the war, and has completed the cleaning of the nuclear bomb ruins in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Even the widespread famine caused by the world's unusually low temperature climate did not cause serious unrest in China. Although China is still only a backward agricultural country, it is only necessary to see that Chinese account for nearly half of the world's 1.2 billion people in the post-war world. With more people speaking Chinese than any other language in the world, you can see the importance of this country in the world in the future.

As the source of the Second and Third World Wars, Japan won extremely brilliant results in the war, although it lost Korea and Taiwan, which it already owned before the war, and failed to occupy China's Manchuria, but it swallowed the whole of Oceania in one go, expanding its territory to a level that can be compared with China! But as a price, the Yamato nation of Japan also paid a terrible price in the war.

When the war ended, Tokyo, the capital of Japan, had been razed to the ground by the atomic bomb, and a series of large cities such as Nagoya, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Sendai, Sapporo, and Nagasaki were also either destroyed by nuclear bombing or burned down by the strategic bombing of the US military. Japan's railways, roads, factories, and mines were completely destroyed in the war, and less than one-fifth of them have been repaired so far, and the industrial base accumulated over the past 100 years has been wiped out. In addition, the Kanto Plain, the most fertile agricultural region in Japan, was severely contaminated by nuclear weapons during the war and will be forced to abandon farmland for a long time to come. Japan's pre-war population of 72 million was reduced to 36 million after the war. As the local economy collapsed and could not feed too many people, about half, or 18 million, of the remaining 36 million Japanese were relocated to the islands of the South Pacific, as well as to newly occupied Australia and New Zealand. To make matters worse, among the 36 million Japanese who survived, there is a serious gender imbalance, with the ratio of healthy men and women of childbearing age reaching almost 1 to 4! In other words, a man needs to marry four women to ensure that there are not too many leftover women.

In response, Japan's new government had to amend the marriage law, announcing the resumption of polygamy within 20 years. In addition, in order to increase the population as soon as possible, the Japanese government even lowered the legal marriage age for Japanese women to an incredible nine years old in one go, which caused a lot of controversy.

Therefore, although Japan was the victor of the world war, it was already on the verge of death after the war. In addition, because the new Japanese regime did not revolutionize thoroughly enough and retained too many remnants of the old era, it is likely that the internal struggle and rift in the future will be very serious. Therefore, the Committee believes that it remains to be seen and studied whether Japan will continue to maintain its strength after the war and become one of the major leaders of the new world.

Before the outbreak of the World War, the Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Japanese Imperial Government, with a population of about 24 million.

After the outbreak of World War II, Korea was thrown into the war as part of the Japanese Empire at the time, and three million Koreans were killed or wounded in the war and relocated overseas. Freedom and independence were won on the Korean Peninsula immediately after the collapse of the old Japanese imperial regime, but soon a bloody civil war broke out between revolutionary and reactionary forces. During this Korean civil war and the ensuing Great Purge, at least one million North Koreans died as a result.

Then, like all other countries in the world, the nascent Republic of Korea was hit by an unusually low global temperature caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland, which led to a drastic decline in domestic food production, especially rice, and a severe nationwide famine.

In addition, the Republic of Korea has also suffered four nuclear explosions by the US Strategic Air Force, and the capital of the DPRK, Seoul, the capital of the DPRK, Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, Busan, the largest port of the DPRK, and the port of Chongjin in the northern part of the DPRK, a total of four important cities, have been completely destroyed in the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosions, and the direct death toll in the nuclear explosions alone has exceeded 2 million. At the same time, the bacteriological bombs dropped by the US military on the Korean Peninsula led to the outbreak and spread of a nationwide plague on the Korean Peninsula. As a result of so many disasters, North Korea's current population is only about 15 million.

Due to the nuclear bombings in Pyongyang and Seoul, the temporary capital of the Republic of Korea has to be temporarily relocated to Gwangju in the southwest. As a result, most of the industrial and mining enterprises and railway transportation in the DPRK have been paralyzed, and the DPRK has not yet fully resumed railway operations due to its weak foundation.

However, the damage of the Republic of Korea is not very serious in Europe, which is the average level.

In general, East Asia lost about 120 million to 130 million people (including emigrants) in the Second and Third World Wars, but the number of East Asian yellow people who survived was still about half of the global population after the war.

Taking into account the outstanding performance of the Japanese Navy and Army in the world war, if there are no very great changes in the future, it is expected that the international status of the yellow race in the future world will inevitably be improved to a considerable extent.

South and South-East Asia

In the midst of the world wars that have just ended, South and Southeast Asia are also important battlefields in terms of global population losses. Especially at the same time that the U.S. president signed the surrender under the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hindustan civil war in South Asia was still in full swing.

In fact, when World War II broke out, some of the Indian colonial troops, under the banner of the British Empire, had already come to fight on the front lines in North Africa and Europe. When the Japanese swept through Malaya and captured Singapore, tens of thousands of Indian soldiers were killed or captured.

However, the real mass bloodshed in South Asia began with the Japanese landing on the island of Ceylon in 1942 and the support of Chandra, the former chairman of the Indian National Congress Party. Bowes launched the Great Indian National Revolt began. Over the next three years, the Congress Party, the Muslim League, the princely states, the British colonial army, the invading Japanese army, and even a part of the expeditionary force of the old reactionary Chinese government stranded in India turned the entire subcontinent into a sea of corpses and blood.

In the midst of this vigorous Hindustan melee, the division of the camps of the various forces seems to be very chaotic, and it can no longer be divided by simple invasion and resistance, or colonial repression and liberation uprising, nor can it be completely divided by faith, ethnicity, and behind-the-scenes supporters.

In fact, for any leader on the battlefield, the situation in front of them and in the rear is dizzying: the roles of allies and enemies are constantly changing, and the mutinies and usurpations within the various forces are endless. Sometimes, a victory in a battle is not good news for a leader, because it can lead to the betrayal and defection of some allies.

Although the war took place in the South Asian subcontinent, it was initially thought by many to be a dog-eat-dog struggle between the Japanese and British forces over the colony. But in fact, for the vast majority of the time, it is still the Indians themselves who stand on the stage of this war. Especially in recent years, when the Japanese army had long since withdrawn and Britain had also collapsed, the war had turned into a complete civil war among the Hindustan peoples. The national, religious, class, colonized and colonized, aggression and counter-aggression contradictions accumulated over centuries throughout the Hindustan region broke out at the same time in this war, so much so that it is almost impossible to begin to analyze it, even from the standpoint of a bystander.

However, despite the chaos of the Indian Civil War, one thing is clear. That is, the tragic civil war severely damaged India's agricultural production, created tens of millions of war refugees, and caused countless massacres and famines. In particular, when the world's abnormally low temperature weather fell, India's food production fell sharply again, but the Indian civil war intensified, causing the whole India to fall into the hell of hunger and death.

As the Third World War came to an end, there was a glimmer of hope for an end to the war and the restoration of peace in the South Asian subcontinent: in the spring of 1949, the Muslim League troops from Punjab and Chandra. The Indian National Army, led by Bose, joined forces from western India to invade the Ganges Valley, achieving a series of brilliant victories in the traditional hinterland of India, and in April, it entered Calcutta, completing the march "from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal", successfully controlling more than half of India's land and population, and achieving a decisive advantage in the civil war.

But the problem is that then, with the death of the leader of the Muslim League in India, Jinnah, in September 1949, there was also the leader of the radical wing of the Indian National Congress party, Chandra. The assassination of Bose in November 1949 dimmed the glimmer of light again -- the successors of the two forces immediately clashed violently, and the successors of the Muslim League declared that they wanted to secede from India and establish a "Pakistani state" in Punjab and Bangladesh, which the radical wing of the Congress Party fiercely opposed, and even broke out into bloody clashes with the Muslim League's army, and the previous cooperation between the two sides was no longer sustainable.

Nehru, who had already been beaten to the brink, and the princely lords of India allied with him were given a precious respite. Nehru's army even took the opportunity to launch a massive counteroffensive in Bihar, in the Ganges valley, and it was victorious. Coupled with another rebellion by the Sikh army in the Punjab region, the situation of the Indian civil war has once again become chaotic and uncertain, and there seems to be a tendency for the war to become protracted and divided.

All in all, the entire South Asian subcontinent has lost about 160 million people in the unprecedented wars, famines and plagues of the past few years, while the remaining 200 million people are still in the midst of fierce and chaotic fighting, and no one knows when the end will be.

At the same time, in the past few years of the world war, the countries of Southeast Asia have also spent time in the midst of changes, chaos and turmoil.

However, during World War II, which preceded the collapse of Japan's old empire, the situation in Southeast Asia was barely stable. Because the Japanese army in the early Pacific took only a very short time to successfully seize all of Southeast Asia from the British, Dutch, and American colonists, the war damage during this period was relatively light.

During the subsequent Japanese occupation, a certain degree of national uprising and guerrilla warfare broke out in the Philippines, Malaya and Indonesia, and the Japanese army encircled and suppressed it. Some local natives were forcibly conscripted by the Japanese occupation forces as coolies, and died of overwork at mine sites and military forts. But on the whole, the scale of the human deaths caused by all this is not particularly large. According to the statistics provided by the Japanese wartime base camp, during the four years before and after the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, the total population loss was only a maximum of 1.5 million to 2 million.

After the collapse of the old Japanese Empire and the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Southeast Asia, the Pandora's box called all-out war was officially opened on this land. Revolutionaries, warlords, princes, sultans, religious groups, tribal chieftains, and European and American colonists who had returned to the East all appeared in a very short period of time, vying to fill the power vacuum created by the withdrawal of Japanese troops. The atomic bombs dropped by the US Strategic Air Force on Hanoi and Jakarta, especially the latter, further aggravated the chaos in Southeast Asia -- before the nuclear explosion in Jakarta, various Indonesian forces had basically recognized the central government led by Sukarno, but as the entire Sukarno government turned into radioactive dust in the mushroom cloud of Jakarta, more than 20 revolutionary governments, nine sultanates, and an unknown number of emirates soon emerged on the original map of Dutch Indonesia.

So far, in the whole of Southeast Asia, only Vietnam and the Philippines have initially stabilized the domestic situation and established socialist regimes, but they are still facing extremely arduous tasks of counterinsurgency and suppression of bandits. After ousting the king and withdrawing from the world war, Thailand established a military government for a time, but then collapsed in 1948 due to a peasant uprising and military infighting, and is now in the midst of warlord warfare. As for Malaya and Indonesia, after all these years of chaos, the general trend is towards disintegration, and it is likely that it will eventually split into 30 to 40 small states.

As for how many people have been lost in the war and famine in Southeast Asia over the years, and how many people are left, there is no precise data at present. The Commission can only tentatively estimate that some 120 million or so residents of South-East Asian countries died during this period.

6. Oceania

In the past eight years, Oceania has seen another bloody human race.

More than 100 years ago, the British Anglo-Saxon nation landed in Australia, exterminated the local aborigines of color, established the colonies of Australia and New Zealand, and washed this land tens of thousands of kilometers away from Europe into white with blood and gunsmoke. After a lapse of 100 years, the more ferocious Japanese army landed in Australia from the north and launched an even more brutal bloody massacre, once again dyeing the land yellow with blood.

According to the occupation policy of the Japanese and Australian occupation forces, after the fall of Australia, all but some young women were slaughtered by the Japanese army. Then, as New Zealand changed hands, two million white New Zealanders seemed to be on the verge of the same fate. However, compared with their Australian neighbors, white New Zealanders were slightly luckier, because of the intervention of the Comintern, in the end, about a million white New Zealanders survived, and were not directly slaughtered by the Japanese army, but were taken on ships and deported to the Union of South Africa, which was willing to accept them.

However, the white inhabitants of Australia and New Zealand were largely wiped out or deported to South Africa. But in numbers, there are only seven million to eight million deaths. It is really not worth mentioning compared to the devastating catastrophe that the whole world has just experienced.

In addition to this, the Pacific Wars of the past few years have resulted in the deaths of 800,000 to 1 million indigenous people of Oceania. The largest of these was a carpet nuclear strike by the Soviet Strategic Air Force on the Hawaiian Islands, after which the entire Hawaiian Islands became largely a no-man's land.

As a result, Oceania as a whole lost between 8 million and 9 million people during the war, and more precise figures need to be further verified.

At the same time, however, 18 million Japanese, as well as millions of Chinese and Koreans, totaling more than 20 million yellow East Asian immigrants, quickly poured into the Japanese-occupied Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific islands to settle in the past few years, and began large-scale development and construction.

Thus, after the war, the population of Oceania doubled dramatically, rather than decreasing. The agricultural and animal husbandry production, factories, mines, railways, highways, and port transportation in Oceania have long been restored under the Japanese occupation, and large areas of wilderness have been reclaimed into pastures and farms, and many Australian and New Zealand cities have even become more prosperous than in the past, but the residents of the cities are no longer the same faces as before. (To be continued.) )