Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, Episode

214, betrayal, the Burma Road, and the Battle of Namahann.

Chang Kai-shek and the Nationalists had been driven out of East China.

Their populated and resource poor Japan had taken what it needed.

But now what?

China wasn't surrendering, and Tokyo had spent a million of yen and lost thousands of

men to get to this point.

That was just it.

There was no point, no fixed goal achieved, and no solution.

Chongqing was now the new nationalist capital, and it was so far away.

It's more the trade-off for Japan for all of this had been incredibly lopsided.

Having passed the National Mobilization Law, the legislative branch of the government,

the DEIT had lost control of the military and of the people's lives, as everything

was now a function of the armed forces.

Even worse, the China incident that became in all at war had caused friction between

Japan and other countries.

Modernist Russia was now supplying China with more material, and hundreds of thousands

of rubles each month.

Soviet pilots were actively fighting against Japanese aircraft, as were Shenaltz-American

pilots, and the tension that had risen between Washington and Tokyo could only bow to

ill for the island nation.

To be sure, the two countries had enjoyed closeness previously, as when the United States

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