就中国而言，它用历史来作为推翻当前领土和海洋现状的借口，并将1945年以前日本对自身的殖民掠夺行为用在了别人身上。
China, for its part, uses history to justify its efforts to upend the territorial and maritime status quo and emulate the pre-1945 colonial depredations of its rival Japan.