This put him in control over the deteriorating Sino-Japanese relationship. By the 1930s, Wang Jingwei had taken the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek. Sun's last will and testament, he was rapidly overtaken by Chiang Kai-shek. While Wang Jingwei was widely regarded as a favorite to inherit Sun Yat-sen's position as leader of the Nationalist Party, based upon his faithful service to the party throughout the 1910s and 20s and based on his unique position as the one who accepted and recorded Dr. Other names used are the Republic of China-Nanjing, China-Nanjing, or New China. As the government of the Republic of China and subsequently of the People's Republic of China regard the regime as illegal, it is also commonly known as Wang's Puppet Regime ( Chinese: 汪 偽 政 權 pinyin: Wāng Wěi Zhèng quán) or Puppet Nationalist Government ( Chinese: 偽 國 民 政 府 pinyin: Wěi Guó mín Zhèng fǔ) in Greater China. The regime is informally also known as the Nanjing Nationalist Government ( Chinese: 南 京 國 民 政 府 pinyin: Nán jīng Guó mín Zhèng fǔ), the Nanjing Regime, or by its leader Wang Jingwei Regime ( Chinese: 汪 精 衛 政 權 pinyin: Wāng Jīng wèi Zhèng quán). The Japanese largely viewed it as not an end in itself but the means to an end, a bridge for negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek, which led them to often treat Wang with indifference. His regime was also hampered by the fact that the powers granted to it by the Japanese were extremely limited, and this was only partly changed with the signing of a new treaty in 1943 which gave it more sovereignty from Japanese control. The region of Mengjiang (puppet government in Inner Mongolia) was under Wang Jingwei's government only nominally. However, after 1940 the former territory of the Provisional Government remained semi-autonomous from Nanjing's control, under the name " North China Political Council". Unlike Wang Jingwei's government, these regimes were not much more than arms of the Japanese military leadership and received no recognition even from Japan itself or its allies. The state was formed by combining the previous Reformed Government (1938–1940) and Provisional Government (1937–1940) of the Republic of China, puppet regimes which ruled the central and northern regions of China that were under Japanese control, respectively. The Reorganized National Government existed until the end of World War II and the surrender of Japan in August 1945, at which point the regime was dissolved and many of its leading members were executed for treason. Its international recognition was limited to other members of the Anti-Comintern Pact, of which it was a signatory. ![]() The new state claimed the entirety of China (outside the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo) during its existence, portraying itself as the legitimate inheritors of the Xinhai Revolution and Sun Yat-sen's legacy as opposed to Chiang Kai-shek's government in Chunking (Chongqing), but effectively only Japanese-occupied territory was under its direct control. ![]() Wang, a rival of Chiang Kai-shek and member of the pro-peace faction of the KMT, defected to the Japanese side and formed a collaborationist rebel government in occupied Nanking (Nanjing) (the traditional capital of China) in 1940, as well as a concurrent collaborationist Kuomintang that ruled the new government. The region that it would administer was initially seized by Japan throughout the late 1930s with the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The country was ruled as a dictatorship under Wang Jingwei, a very high-ranking former Kuomintang (KMT) official. This should not be confused with the contemporaneously existing National Government of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek, which was fighting with the Allies of World War II against Japan during this period. The Wang Jingwei regime or the Wang Ching-wei regime is the common name of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China ( Chinese: 中華民國國民政府 pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó Guómín Zhèngfǔ), the government of the puppet state of the Empire of Japan in eastern China called simply the Republic of China. Provisional Government of the Republic of China ![]() Reformed Government of the Republic of China
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