Basing your evaluation of China on anything that happened or didn't happen with Japan is a fallacy. China should be evaluated on its own merits or demerits, an

Basing your evaluation of China on anything that happened or didn't happen with Japan is a fallacy. China should be evaluated on its own merits or demerits, and not in comparison with Japan. For one, Japan never had more than 50% of the US population. For their GDP to have eclipsed ours, their average citizen would have had to produce and consume twice as much as the average US citizen. The Japanese are highly productive, but not that much. China on the other hand has four times our population. It's an entirely different dynamic here, and somewhat uncharted territory. No comparison.