”The Chinese always did, do, and will, regard foreign nations as barbarian enemy, to be dealt with by playing them off against each other”

 

無意識ではなくマクマレーって米国外交官がちゃんと言ってますよ。
「日本人は、表面的には感情を表さないように見えるが、実は深い憤りをひそかに育て、不意に逆上して手のつけられなくなるような国民なのだ」 https://t.co/qx5EyBynxY

— ペネたん（晴れたら満月） (@penelopekn) March 16, 2022

引用部分の原文をまだ見つけていないんだけど、 

John Van Antwerp MacMurray From Wikipedia,

The conventional wisdom held that Japan was the unprovoked aggressor in the brewing conflict with China. However, MacMurray posited that Chinese and American policies were partly to blame for Japan's actions; whereas Japan had closely adhered to the treaties and agreements brokered during the Washington Disarmament Conference, the United States, Great Britain and China frequently undermined them. Up until the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the "Japanese Government ... was endeavoring in unimpeachable good faith to live up to its undertakings", wrote MacMurray. "The issue of success or failure for the policies evolved at the Washington Conference was actually in the hands of China herself, of Great Britain, and of the United States."[14]

Japan-U.S. Alliance a Guarantee for PeaceOctober 23rd, 2005

Regarding China, the memorandum said: “There may be pacifists and idealists who foresee our victory over Japan…open a readier opportunity for closer understanding and collaboration, along liberal lines, between the United States and China. That is a delusive hope. The Chinese always did, do, and will, regard foreign nations as barbarian enemy, to be dealt with by playing them off against each other.”

It also notes, “If we were to ‘save’ China from Japan and becomes the ‘Number One’ nation in the eyes of her people, we should thereby become not the most favored, but the most distrusted of nations.”

To be sure, Japan, from a cool-headed, geopolitical point of view, is useful to the United States as a fortress, or at least as a buffer, against Russia and China, which–through temporarily pulling back from the center stage of international politics in the Far East due to their revolutions at the outset of the 20th century–are potentially more formidable continental powers than Japan.

今のロシアはどっちかというと戦前の日本みたいなところがあって、戦後の日本はアメリカの緩衝地帯としてのウクライナみたいなところがあるのかもね。