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Wang Zhaoming (4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944), widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei, was a Chinese politician who was president of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan.
The Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, [b] commonly described as the Wang Jingwei regime, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in eastern China.It existed coterminous with the Nationalist government of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek, which was fighting Japan alongside the other Allies of World War II.
Reports from October 1943 claimed that the strength of the Nanjing Army in south and central China was 42 divisions, 5 independent brigades, and 15 independent regiments. Information regarding the Nanjing Army is incomplete and creating a full picture of the Wang Jingwei regime's order of battle is impossible. [1]
Wang Jingwei in his military uniform; the Kuomintang flag can be seen on the background A propaganda leaflet to promote the unequal treaty of "China-Japan Basic Treaty" From 28 to 30 August 1939, Wang Jingwei secretly convened the 6th National Congress of the KMT in the city of Shanghai. [5]
The regime had little authority or popular support, nor did it receive international recognition even from Japan itself, lasting only two years before it was merged with the Provisional Government into the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China under Wang Jingwei. Due to the extensive powers of the Japanese advisors within the ...
The Provisional Government was, along with the Reformed Government of the Republic of China, merged into Wang Jingwei's Nanjing-based reorganized national government on 30 March 1940, but in practical terms actually remained virtually independent under the name of the "North China Political Council" (華北政務委員會) until the end of the ...
Wang told delegates that Beijing "firmly opposes the illegal and unreasonable suppression of China by the U.S. and, in particular, must respond firmly and forcefully to the U.S.' brutal ...
Wang Jingwei was in favor of joining the pact, but Chiang Kai-shek was careful not to offend the Soviet Union, which was China's only potential partner in case of a Japanese attack. [31]: 237 Chiang knew that the Japanese regarded Chinese adhesion to the proposed pact as a way of subordinating China to Japan.