My apologies, too simplistic, and yes of course, all of the above is true, but among the trends at the time was this yellow-peril hysteria in the western press only helping to split off the Japanese into a stereoyped 'us and them' separate entity that the J military were only too happy to take advantage of, and the populace to fall right into.
My point (admittedly weakly put) was that with the benefit of such hindsight I hope we do not fall into the same pattern with 'the Chinese', and as the good US General Minihan above, bring forwards a situation by delineating it too clearly and too publicly. Forewarned is of course forearmed, so I agree that we need to be ready for any sudden-move scenario concerning Taiwan.