5T > Didn’t China save the Mirrer Yeshiva by allowing it to relocate to Shanghai
Shanghai was occupied by Japanese from 1937 and also had lots of international population – from Western businessmen to Russian refugees from Bolsheviks. Dutch council in Kovno was giving Jews visas to Curaso and Japanese Sugihara used this as a basis to give them transit visas via Japan, that included Shanghai. By some diplomatic miracle (and maybe some financial incentive), Soviets ewre rounding up Jews in Lita and Poland but honored the Jews with these visas to travel freely through, I guess, the same railroad that lead others to labor camps.
Lack of historical animosity is not a good indicator: Jews had a lot of tensions with Poles – but that is where most of us decided to live over centuries, had our own government (Vaad Arba Artzos), and grew large communities. Many countries did not have tension with Jews by simply not allowing them in or expelling them (Spain, England, Russia).