Craig Watson
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Less obviously, it also transformed the war in Asia.
Thanks to intelligence leaks, Chiang Kai shek had already realized that war between Germany and the USSR was likely.
After the neutrality treaty between the USSR and Japan was signed on april thirteenth of nineteen forty one.
Chiang predicted that the United States would be drawn into the Asian War, and even that Japan might eventually reverse course and strike the Soviet Union.
If that happened, China would become the critical Asian ally of both Washington and Moscow.
Stellin had been caught off guard by the German assault, largely because he ignored increasingly urgent warnings from senior colleagues, receiving intelligence from very well placed spies in Germany and the Comintern.
Eager to preserve its alliances now press the Chinese communists to cooperate more closely with the nationalists.
On june twenty third of nineteen forty one, the CCP Central Committee responded with a declaration that it would preserve in the anti Japanese United Front, preserve in the Nationalist Communist cooperation, and would align itself with the British, the Americans, and others resisting the fascist rulers of the Axis.
In Chongqing and Yanan, the German attack on the Soviet Union were interpreted as a hopeful sign that Japan's fortunes might be beginning to turn.
In Nanjing, the reaction was different.
On june the twenty second, Joffo High recorded in his diary
Although the outcome cannot be predicted, members of the Nanjing regime all believe Germany will win and will take Moscow within two months.
Joe speculated that Japan could not easily reconcile its neutrality treaty with the USSR and its membership in the Anti-Comintern Pact, which was supposed to unite the Axis against Soviet expansion.
Still, because Germany had struck first, Japan was under no formal obligation to help.
Zhou had also continued to view events through a lens he had never really abandoned, that of Chinese nationalism.
If Chongqing joins the Allies and they win, then this is good for China.
If they lost, it would be disastrous for Chiang Kai shek, but because Huang Jingwei had established a government in Nanjing under Japanese sponsorship, China now had a foot in both boats.
It was a ruthless calculation, but not a wholly dishonorable one.
Zhou was not merely advancing Japanese interests.
He was hedging, waging on multiple futures in the name of a China he believed would endure beyond whatever constellation of powers happened to be dominating at that moment.
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