However, the case could be made that peace is not always unambiguously positive. For instance, when faced with the rise of Imperial Japan in the 1930s, was it better for China to seek some form of peace or to take measures that made full-scale war with Japan that much more likely? Is it better to accept an unjust order and thus preserve the peace or to take up arms to seek some form of peace or to take measures that made full-scale war with Japan that much more likely? Is it better to accept an unjust – and thus preserve the peace –or to take up arms to oppose injustice? In human terms, and other things being equal, peace is preferable to war. However, because other things are never equal, peace at any cost is sometimes a road block to progress