Greater East Asian Co Prosperity sphere without war

Could Japan have found ways, other than war terror and rape, of influencing China and getting markets and raw materials and have used the nationalist spirit to link itself to anti colonial feelings in Duthch, French, British lands and even in the Phillipines?

If this happened and in 1941 both The "Dutch East Indies" and "French Indo China" became 'independent' with pro Japanese governments would FDR have accepted it?
 
Leave Chiang and Mao to ruin a Japanese plan. So the first thing to do is assasinate Mao and Chiang. Then have softer plans for China, not calling them beasts and all that, instead have the Chinese work nonstop in the oil fields.

If somehow the Japanese can negotiate a military pass thru Indochina with Vichy France, then have china as a 'model colony' in Asia, then the Indies will probably get influenced.
Our people were pretty sick of the Dutch anyway. A national insurgency againts the Dutch would piss them off, maybe? The Japanese could support this, but of course secretly.
 
Perhaps with a Dutch version of Vichy, where the legitimate successor Dutch government still runs most of country and the govt in exile is only tiny and marginalised in 1940-41. Such a govt could allow Japanese forces into the EI to defend them, and this would give the Japanese the oil they needed to defy the embargo. Perhaps the Pacific war would be started by the USA, but if given a few years to exploit Indochina and the East Indies Japan would be in a good condition to face the US.
 
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