I think you should read some books outside Japan before you jump to your conclusion. Who did CKS attack? Who did Japanese Kwantung Army attacked? Chiang Kai Shek (CKS, Facist because he is anti-communist?), or was it because he attended Military Academy in Japan; or was it because he initially had German Generals as his advisors (Max Bauer, Alexander Falkenhausen, schoolmaster to Erwin Rommel at Dreden Infantry School) CKS was certainly a controversial figure in China, but your criticism does not hold water. You don't understand the history in China, that is why you only want to cherry pick what make sense to you.
Republic of China was only established in 1911, the government were started by intellectuals who had very little military experience. Germany was the only country that were friendly to China because they lost WWI. They had no preferential treatment from the Chinese Government. After 1911, there were war lord factions in China, including the communists. German Wehrmacht were the only country who were willing to lend money to China (6 million Gold Marks). Japanese actually attacked TsingTao (German Settlment in China). German high military command were never pleased with Hitler's alliance with Japan. Goering Herrman and Himmler regarded Japanese as the "Italians in the East", they will stab you in the back. Many of these generals later will conspire to assassinate Hitler, Falkenhausen, Beck, Rommel, etc.
When Japan invaded Manchuria, Chinese had no organized army. Only militia under the war lords. CKS was waiting the Revolutionary Army to be fully trained and equipped by his German Advisors. The German High Military Command were on board to fully train Chinese Army, Air Force, and Navy. One thing that never happened that probably would have saved China was pilots to be trained by Luftwaffe with Messerschmidt 109 fighters. It was because CKS made a mistake by stopping attacks against the communist, that Hitler later dismissed him as an ally. The Chinese Military was on schedule to be fully trained and equipped by 1939. Of course the Japanese and the war lords never gave him that chance.
CKS was admired by many Japanese Soldiers and Politician alike. If he was facist, he could have demanded many reparation from Japan; but he refused. Japanese POW under Chinese Nationalist were mostly very humane. General Okamura (commander of China expeditionary Army) would later take his allegiance to CKS to defend Nationalists. When CKS past away in Taiwan, PM Fukuda along with many Japanese Parliamentary members attended his funeral; despite protest from Communist China.
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