Thoughts on this idea?

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-9593-4_9

Basically, this author says the 'reverse course' or the change in US attitudes towards Japan in the postwar era, wasn't influenced by China's communist takeover to the point that is sometimes portrayed, that it was a preplanned thing to bring Japan back into the global economy at some point.

Since this is a new paper and this particular topic is a bit controversial over there in Japan, I'm not sure if I should take the author's ideas for granted.