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Weimar Germany had very strong relationships with Chiang Kai-Shek's China. Although Hitler eventually ended up supporting Imperial Japan's aggression against China, the overwhelming public sentiment in Germany was pro-Chinese, even to the point that the Germans even provided military aid to the Chinese until 1938, until the Japanese pressured them to withdraw it.

Hitler had decided to side with Japan because he felt that Japan would be more likely to win, disregarding a history of Sino-German cooperation. What would have happened if Adolf Hitler, having the foresight to predict that China would not fall as quickly as the Japanese predicted, decided to support the Chinese against the Japanese?
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