Wang Jingwei regime

The Reorganized National Governmentof the Republic of China (RNG), commonly known as the Wang Jingwei regime, was a collaborationist government with the Empire of Japan that administered Japanese-occupied China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In late 1938, Wang Jingwei, then second in the leadership of the Republic of China (ROC) after Chiang Kai-shek, departed the wartime capital Chongqing for Hanoi to call for a negotiated peace with Japan. Following his expulsion from the Kuomintang and a failed assassination attempt ordered by Chiang, Wang established the RNG in occupied Nanjing in 1940, with a collaborationist Kuomintang as its ruling party. A deliberate carbon copy of the ROC government, the RNG claimed sovereignty over all of China except the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, presenting itself as the legitimate Chinese government in opposition to Chiang's administration in Chongqing. Its diplomatic recognition was limited to fellow signatories of the Anti-Comintern Pact.

The RNG absorbed the Reformed Government (1938–1940) and the Provisional Government (1937–1940) that had administered occupied central and northern China respectively. Unlike the RNG, these predecessors functioned largely as instruments of the Japanese military and received no recognition from Japan or its allies. The former territory of the Provisional Government nevertheless retained semi-autonomous status as the North China Political Council, while the region of Mengjiang remained only nominally under RNG authority. Following Wang's death in November 1944, Chen Gongbo succeeded him as head of government. After Japan's surrender in August 1945, the RNG dissolved; many of its leading members were tried and executed for treason.