Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
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The final blow came after developments in northern Europe.
In the Winter War of nineteen thirty nine to nineteen forty, the Soviet invasion of Finland led Britain and France to back a motion expelling the USSR from the League of Nations.
Stalin was enraged by Chang's failure to prevent the Soviet expulsion.
A mutual suspicion thereafter poisoned relationships between the two leaders for the rest of the war against Japan.
China would now have to continue without further major Soviet backing.
By the spring of nineteen forty, China's position had become deeply precarious.
In March, senior Japanese negotiators sought an agreement with Chang Kai shek in Chongqing, while Wong Jingwei was trying to formalize his rival nationalist government in Nanjing.
This effort, known in Chinese as the Tong Operation, and in Japanese as Operation Kiri, led to talks in Hong Kong from march seventh to the tenth of nineteen forty.
Militarily, the nationalists were in grave danger.
The United States remained neutral, and Europe was in chaos.
Indeed, that same spring, with France seemingly near collapse, the British government also sent out discrete fuelers to explore the possibility of a negotiated peace with Germany.
For China, Western assistance was nowhere in sight.
The Japanese judged the moment favorable for pressing Chang towards concessions.
Faced with serious danger to his regime, Chiang allowed the door to negotiation to open just slightly.
As a consequence, the Japanese delayed full recognition of Wang Qingwei's new government.
Through the summer and autumn of nineteen forty, Tokyo remained uncertain about the defector.
Prominent Japanese figures such as Count Arima Yuriyasu of the Privy Council said Wang Jingwei's conduct demonstrated his untrustworthiness, and Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yasuke continued to express interest in an agreement with Chongqing.
Joe Fau Hai captured the defector's frustration, men who believed they had made the highest patriotic sacrifice when he
We think only peace can save the country.
That's why we think of ourselves as heroes.
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