Editing Potsdam Declaration (section)

=== Intentions of the Allied Powers ===
Each of the Allies who signed the Declaration had their own intentions for doing so, and all parties desired to receive reparations for war damages from the Japanese.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Potsdam Declaration {{!}} Birth of the Constitution of Japan |url=https://ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/etc/c06.html |access-date=2022-10-04 |website=ndl.go.jp |language=en}}</ref>

==== Republic of China ====
The Republic of China desired immediate withdrawal of the Imperial Japanese Army and its subsidiary force the Kwantung Army from all Chinese territory, including Manchuria. Until the very end of the war the Japanese Army had been campaigning in China to assert the rule of the Japanese colonial state there, and the Chinese Nationalists and Communists had been fighting in tandem to expel them from the country.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ienaga |first=Saburo |title=The Pacific War 1931–1945 |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1978 |pages=229–240}}</ref> The Potsdam Declaration was issued in part to make clear the Chinese expectation of complete Japanese withdrawal from China.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003 |title=Potsdam Declaration |url=https://ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/etc/c06.html |website=National Diet Library}}</ref>

==== United Kingdom ====
The United Kingdom had lost control of its possessions in Southeast Asia and China to the Japanese advance in 1941–42. These included [[Colony of Singapore|Singapore]], [[Straits Settlements|Malaya]], [[North Borneo]], [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], and others. A key motivation of the British government was a restoration of control in its prewar possessions, along with a prompt end to the Japanese war effort, especially on the Indian front in [[British rule in Burma|Burma]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Britain and Decolonisation in South East and South Asia, 1945–1948 |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/britain-and-decolonisation-in-south-east-and-south-asia-1945-1948 |access-date=2022-10-04 |website=Imperial War Museums |language=en}}</ref>

==== United States ====
The United States desired to keep maximum strategic latitude for itself upon the defeat of Japan. The American government had demanded in the past the unconditional surrender of Japan as the precondition to peace, and the text of the Declaration reiterated this demand. In the remainder of Asia, the American government had the goals of total rollback of the Empire of Japan's overseas possessions, as well as the additional goal of preventing the communists – with the support and patronage of the Soviet Union – from expanding influence in East Asia and Southeast Asia.{{sfn|Hasegawa|2005|pp=183–186}}