The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China - Chapter 1041

   In the next two months, Zhou Hexuan temporarily joined Lao Jiang’s attendant’s office and assisted in perfecting a series of drafted negotiation plans. He especially instructed Chang Kaishen that if the United States is willing to hand over Ryukyu to China for management, then it must agree.

   Historically, because Chang Kaishen was conscious of his limited diplomatic ability, he asked the Servant’s Office to formulate a negotiation plan before going abroad. All his actions during the meeting were strictly implemented according to this plan, mainly because he was afraid that he would screw up again.

   As a result, an unexpected situation occurred in the middle. Roosevelt said twice before and after that he would hand over Ryukyu to China. As for whether to let China directly annex Ryukyu, or let China manage Ryukyu as the suzerain, this question was rejected by Lao Jiang before he had time to discuss it in detail.

  Why did Chang Kaishen refuse such a good thing?

  Because Ryukyu was not in his established negotiation plan, he didn’t know how to deal with it, and could only consider the problem with inertial thinking. Lao Jiang was afraid that China would get Ryukyu and would have another conflict with Japan in the future, so he suggested that China and the United States jointly take over.

  Roosevelt felt incredible about this. He couldn’t imagine that Lao Jiang didn’t even want this kind of benefit, and he didn’t bother to mention it later.

  The Ryukyu Islands consist of more than 400 islands, including the Okinawa Islands. If Lao Jiang agreed back then, then Yui Aragaki might be a Chinese girl, and the fat house people don’t have to call for Japanese wives every day.

   After the Cairo meeting, the more Chang Kaishen thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he probably regretted it before he got on the plane. He thought that the news of this matter would damage the image of the leader, so he told Wang Chonghui: “On the issue that Roosevelt will hand over the Ryukyu to us, only a few people know about it, so don’t talk about it. If anyone asks about this, say we have no treaty. According to this, no reason can be given.”

   In the negotiation plan assisted by Zhou Hexuan, after several revisions, he believed that China should propose suzerainty over Ryukyu, and at least ensure the independence of Ryukyu after the war.

   Chang Kaishen has doubts about this. He feels that Japan has annexed Ryukyu for too long, and it is difficult for China to directly ask for it. Under Zhou Hexuan’s repeated persuasion, Lao Jiang only promised to guarantee the independence of the Ryukyu Islands at first, and that it would be jointly managed by China and the United States.

Until September, Chang Kaishen was probably annoyed by Zhou Hexuan, and finally agreed to claim the suzerainty of the Ryukyu Islands, and he refused to annex the Ryukyu Islands if he killed him. He had no interest in Ryukyu, nor did he think the indigenous people on the island were Chinese. .

   Zhou Hexuan could only be speechless about this.

   To be honest, as long as China cannot directly annex Ryukyu after the war, then it will be difficult to do so. Because of the three-year civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the United States’ Asian policy has been adjusted rapidly, and it wants to support Japan to fight against China and the Soviet Union.

   By then, even if China gains suzerainty over Ryukyu, the Yankees are likely to backtrack. Just like the Diaoyu Islands, it was legally returned to China in 1945. As a result, it was taken over by the United States in 1951, which led Japan to claim sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands under this pretext.

   This could happen even if China annexed Ryukyu. Because the Communist Party does not have a strong navy, and Lao Jiang, who has retreated to Taiwan, does not have the strength to take over Ryukyu, and then there will be all kinds of wrangling and changes.

The biggest problem of    is that it was the San Francisco contract that really established the post-war order in the Far East, and neither the Kuomintang and the Communist Party sent anyone to participate. If you don’t participate in the dividend-sharing conference, many deserved benefits will naturally not be realized, which is the helplessness of the international political environment at that time.

   Historically, the United States also suggested that the four countries, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom, should jointly manage Japan.

   The Yankees have divided the territory. The United States is responsible for the management of the state, the United Kingdom is responsible for the management of Kyushu, China is responsible for the management of the four countries, and the Soviet Union is responsible for the management of Hokkaido.

   As a result, Britain was busy restoring its post-war domestic economy and had no time to send troops to manage Japan. The Soviet Union had a conflict with the United States again. After compromise and negotiation, it obtained the sovereignty of the Kuril Islands, but the United States only acquiesced (the Yalta Conference has made a commitment), which led to the territorial dispute between Russia and Japan.

   And China did intend to take over the Shikoku area of ​​Japan. At that time, a total of 14,500 people from the 67th Division were planned to be stationed in Japan. When the vanguard set off, Chinese newspapers carried out a lot of propaganda reports, and all the Chinese felt proud.

  Unfortunately, the war broke out. The 6,000 leading troops stationed in Japan were transferred back by Lao Jiang to fight the civil war.

   Until the 21st century, neither the New China nor the Taiwan authorities have claimed to give up the right to station troops in Japan. That is to say, from a legal point of view, China not only has the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands, but also has the right to legally station troops in Japan, and the garrison should have at least one division.

   This is the legitimate rights and interests of the victorious country!

October.

  Roosevelt’s fourth telegram invited Chang Kaishen to attend the summit. Chang Kaishen wrote back and agreed, but requested that the venue of the meeting be changed from Washington to Cairo.

  Roosevelt accepted this suggestion and conveyed Chang Kaishen’s opinion to Churchill and Stalin. Churchill of course agreed with this plan, because Egypt belonged to the British territory, and it would be very beneficial to the British to meet on its own territory.

   The key lies in Stalin, this kind father still maintains neutrality with Japan, and even the support to China is sneaky and shrinking. He was afraid that meeting with Lao Jiang directly would arouse the dissatisfaction of the Japanese government and provoke those Japanese officers to send troops to the Soviet Far East again.

   As a result, the four-nation summit plan was shelved again.

   In November, Roosevelt could not solve this problem. He had to hold a meeting with Chang Kaishen and Churchill in Cairo first, and then in Tehran next door to ask Stalin to hold another meeting (the previous chapter was typo, it was written as Yalta).

   During the entire meeting, Chang Kaishen was all smiles and complacent. Although Churchill disliked him, it was generally pleasant and did not reproduce the tragedy of Versailles as Lao Jiang expected.

  Roosevelt agreed to all of China’s post-war political and territorial claims, including gaining sovereignty over the Ryukyu and Diaoyu Islands.

   This surprised Chang Kaishen, he just asked for the suzerainty of Ryukyu. If he can’t reach an agreement, he just wants to make Ryukyu independent. If we can’t talk about it, let Japan continue to rule Ryukyu. As a result, as soon as he spoke, Roosevelt directly handed over Ryukyu to China, not with suzerainty, but with real sovereignty.

   In other words, Okinawa and other islands will be Chinese in the future, and Yui Aragaki is also a Chinese girl.

   Zhou Hexuan was very happy to receive the news in China, but that’s all, no one knows whether the Yankees will go back on their word.

  In history, the Soviet Union also obtained the sovereignty of the entire Kuril Islands at the Yalta Conference, and the Japanese are not playing tricks and refusing to give the South Kuril Islands.

   There is only so much Zhou Hexuan can do. He is not optimistic about the annexation of Ryukyu – he is not even sure that he will get the Diaoyu Islands, because after the war China does not have the strength to fulfill it.

   But at least, in this time and space, Yui Aragaki legally belongs to a Chinese girl!