The Chinese remember all too painfully the unequal treaties imposed by the Western powers on China and Japan in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An alliance between the US, Japan, Australia, and possibly India designed to contain China would be greeted by the Chinese with that history firmly in mind.
中国看似没有兴趣仿效十九世纪的欧洲列强，也无意仿效二十世纪上半世纪的日本帝国主义。担心中国有此野心的人忽略了中国的历史。中国无法忘记十九及二十世纪早期西方列强强加给中日两国的不平等条约带来的痛苦回忆。中国在对美、日、澳、或许还有印度的遏制中国联盟作出反应时会牢牢记住这段历史。