Wang Jingwei regime

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The Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China (RNG), commonly known as the Wang Jingwei regime, was a collaborationist government with the Empire of Japan that administered Japanese-occupied China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In late 1938, Wang Jingwei, then second in the leadership of the Republic of China (ROC) after Chiang Kai-shek, departed the wartime capital Chongqing for Hanoi to call for a negotiated peace with Japan. Following his expulsion from the Kuomintang and a failed assassination attempt ordered by Chiang, Wang established the RNG in occupied Nanjing in 1940, with a collaborationist Kuomintang as its ruling party. A deliberate carbon copy of the ROC government, the RNG claimed sovereignty over all of China except the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, presenting itself as the legitimate Chinese government in opposition to Chiang's administration in Chongqing. Its diplomatic recognition was limited to fellow signatories of the Anti-Comintern Pact....

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