Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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After all, the May 4th demonstrations of 1919 had arisen directly from the settlement reached at the Paris Peace Conference.
Yet that older order had at least possessed recognizable anchors, especially the dominance of the two great European empires and the United States.
Now those empires were weakening, and no one could say with confidence what the new geopolitical order would be.
For all Chang knew, Germany might emerge as Europe's new dominant power.
The early years of the European war produced a bewildering spectacle of diplomatic realignment.
The nationalist government had previously enjoyed a short lived flirtation with Nazi Germany.
In fact, Hitler's regime continued supplying Chang with munitions in the first months of China's war against Japan.
The Anti Common Turn Pact of nineteen thirty six had theoretically joined Germany, Italy, and Japan into the Axis, but mutual distrust prevented them from forming anything like a fully coherent alliance.
To be honest, if you're actually interested in the relationship between Nazi Germany and Japan, I just so happen to have made an episode over Echoes of War.
It's titled What Hitler Thought of the Japanese, but it does look into the greater German public's feelings towards Japan as well.
It should be coming out in mid July.
I also will be doing a full video on that very subject at the Pacific War channel on YouTube, and God knows how long it'll take me to edit that one up.
Chang found it useful to imply to Western powers that he might be pushed into closer alignment with Germany, a particularly disturbing possibility for the USSR, which faced enemies in both Europe and Asia.
But eventually the contradictions in German policy towards East Asia became far too severe.
In April of nineteen thirty eight, Germany yielded to Japanese pressure and ended its support for China.
Brin offered little meaningful help.
Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister in May of nineteen thirty seven, at the head of a conservative led national government, and he was quickly overwhelmed by the deteriorating European situation.
If Czechoslovakia was for him a
Far off country of which we knew nothing.
China's fate was even more distant and obscure to many, perhaps most policymakers in London.
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