Editing Wang Jingwei (section)

==Rival presidency and alliance with the Axis Powers==
{{Anchor|Alliance with the Axis Powers}}[[File:Wang Jingwei and Nazis.jpg|thumb|Wang receiving German diplomats while serving as the head of state in 1941]]
[[File:汪精卫见东条英机.jpg|thumb|[[Hideki Tojo]] and Wang Jingwei meet in 1942]]
In late 1938, Wang left Chongqing for Hanoi, French Indochina, where he stayed for three months and announced his support for a negotiated settlement with the Japanese.<ref name="Wang1" /> During this time, he was wounded in an assassination attempt by KMT agents. Wang then flew to Shanghai, where he entered negotiations with Japanese authorities. The Japanese invasion had given him the opportunity he had long sought to establish a new government outside of Chiang Kai-shek's control.

On 30 March 1940, Wang became the head of state of what came to be known as the [[Wang Jingwei regime]] (formally "the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China") based in Nanjing, serving as the President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the National Government ({{lang|zh-hant|行政院長兼國民政府主席}}). In November 1940, Wang's government signed the "Sino-Japanese Treaty" with the Japanese, a document that has been compared with Japan's [[Twenty-one Demands]] for its broad political, military, and economic concessions.<ref name="Wang1" /> In June 1941, Wang gave a public radio address from Tokyo in which he praised Japan and affirmed China's submission to it while criticizing the Kuomintang government, and pledged to work with the Empire of Japan to resist Communism and Western imperialism.<ref>Wang Jingwei. "Radio Address by Mr. Wang Jingwei, President of the Chinese Executive Yuan Broadcast on 24 June 1941" ''The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection''. Cheng, Pei-Kai, Michael Lestz, and Jonathan D. Spence (Eds.). W.W. Norton and Company. (1999) pp. 330–331. {{ISBN|0-393-97372-7}}.</ref> Wang continued to orchestrate politics within his regime in concert with Chiang's international relationship with foreign powers, seizing the [[Shanghai French Concession|French Concession]] and the [[Shanghai International Settlement|International Settlement of Shanghai]] in 1943, after Western nations agreed by consensus to abolish [[extraterritoriality]].<ref>Spence, Jonathan D. (1999) ''The Search for Modern China'', W.W. Norton and Company. p. 449. {{ISBN|0-393-97351-4}}.</ref>

The Government of National Salvation of the collaborationist "''Republic of China''", which Wang headed, was established on the Three Principles of [[Pan-Asianism]], [[anti-communism]], and opposition to Chiang Kai-shek. Wang continued to maintain his contacts with German [[Nazism|Nazis]] and Italian fascists he had established while in exile.<ref name="Wang Ching-wei">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/635349/Wang-Ching-wei |title=Wang Ching-wei |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=30 April 2023 }}</ref><ref name="Ramon Hawley Myers 1993. p. 141">Lifu Chen and Ramon Hawley Myers. ''The storm clouds clear over China: the memoir of Chʻen Li-fu, 1900–1993.'' p. 141. (1994)</ref>