In the next two months, Zhou Hexuan temporarily joined Chiang Kai-shek's aide-de-camp and helped improve a series of draft negotiation plans. He specifically told Chang Kaishen that if the United States was willing to hand over Ryukyu to China, it must agree.
Historically, because Chang Kaishen felt that his diplomatic ability was limited, he asked the attendants to formulate a negotiation plan before going abroad. All his actions during the meeting were strictly carried out in accordance with this plan, mainly because he was afraid that he would mess up again.
As a result, he encountered an unexpected situation midway. Roosevelt twice stated that he would hand over Ryukyu to China. As for whether to let China directly annex Ryukyu or let China manage Ryukyu as a suzerainty, this issue was discussed in detail by Chiang Kai-shek before he could discuss it in detail.
Rejected.
Why would Chang Kaishen refuse such a good thing?
Because Ryukyu was not in his established negotiation plan, he did not know how to deal with it and could only consider the problem with his established thinking. Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that if China got Ryukyu, it would cause another conflict with Japan in the future, so he suggested that China and the two countries should jointly take over it.
Roosevelt felt incredible about this. He couldn't imagine that Chiang Kai-shek didn't even want this kind of benefit, and later he simply didn't bother to mention it anymore.
The Ryukyu Islands are composed of more than 400 islands, including the Okinawa Islands. If Chiang Kai-shek had agreed, then Yui Aragaki might have been a Chinese girl, and fat nerds would not have to ask for a Japanese wife every day.
After the Cairo meeting, the more Chang Kaishen thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He probably regretted it even before he got on the plane. He believed that the news of this matter would damage the image of the leader, so he told Wang Chonghui: "Roosevelt wants to hand over Ryukyu to us.
Only a few people know about it, so don't tell anyone else. If anyone asks about it, just say that we have no basis for the treaty and can't give a reason."
In the negotiation plan that Zhou Hexuan helped to draw up, after several revisions, he believed that China should propose suzerainty over Ryukyu, or at least ensure Ryukyu's post-war independence.
Chang Kaishen had doubts about this. He felt that Japan had annexed Ryukyu for too long and it was difficult for China to claim it directly. Under Zhou Hexuan's repeated persuasion, Chiang Kai-shek initially only promised to ensure that Ryukyu would be independent and jointly managed by China and the United States.
It wasn't until September that Chang Kaishen, probably tired of Zhou Hexuan's complaints, finally agreed to ask for the suzerainty of Ryukyu, and refused to annex the Ryukyu Islands even to death. He had no interest in Ryukyu, nor did he think the natives on the islands were Chinese.
Zhou Hexuan could only be speechless about this.
To be honest, as long as China cannot directly annex Ryukyu after the war, it will be very difficult to do anything next. Because the three-year civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party led to the rapid adjustment of the United States' Asia policy, it wanted to support Japan to fight against China and the Soviet Union.
By then, even if China obtains suzerainty over Ryukyu, the Yankees are likely to go back on their word. Just like the Diaoyu Islands, they were legally returned to China in 1945, but were taken over by the United States in 1951, which later led to Japan taking it as a
An excuse to claim sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands.
This situation may even occur even if China annexes Ryukyu. Because the Communist Party does not have a strong navy, and Chiang Kai-shek, who retreated to Taiwan, does not have the strength to take over Ryukyu, all kinds of wrangling and changes will then occur.
The biggest problem is that it was the Washington Conference that truly established the post-war Far East order, and neither the Kuomintang nor the Communist Party sent anyone to attend. Without participating in the spoils-sharing conference, many deserved benefits would naturally not be realized. This was due to the helplessness of the international political environment at that time.
Historically, the United States also proposed that Japan be co-managed by four countries, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain, garrisoning troops.
The Yankees have divided the territories. The United States is responsible for managing Honshu, the British are responsible for Kyushu, China is responsible for managing the Shikoku, and the Soviet Union is responsible for Hokkaido.
As a result, Britain was busy restoring the post-war domestic economy and had no time to send troops to manage Japan. The Soviet Union had another conflict with the United States. After compromise and negotiations, it gained sovereignty over the Kuril Islands, but the United States only acquiesced (the Yalta Conference had already made a commitment). This is why
This later led to the territorial dispute between Russia and Japan.
China indeed planned to take over the Shikoku region of Japan. At that time, it planned to station 14,500 troops of the Sixty-seventh Division in Japan. When the vanguard troops set off, Chinese newspapers carried a lot of publicity reports, and all Chinese people felt elated.
Unfortunately, the war broke out and the 6,000 vanguard troops stationed in Japan were transferred back by Chiang Kai-shek 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. In other words, legally speaking, China not only has sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands, but also has the right to legally station troops in Japan and the number of troops stationed there.
There is at least one division.
This is the legitimate rights and interests of the victorious country!
October.
Roosevelt sent a fourth telegram inviting Chang Kaishen to attend the summit. Chang Kaishen responded by agreeing, but requested that the venue of the meeting be changed from Washington to Cairo.
Roosevelt accepted this suggestion and conveyed Chang Kaishen's opinion. Of course Churchill was willing to this plan, because Egypt belongs to the British territory, and it would be very beneficial to the British to hold meetings on their own territory.
The key lies in Stalin. This loving father still maintained neutrality with Japan. He even secretly and continuously reduced his support to China. He was afraid that meeting directly with Chiang Kai-shek would arouse the dissatisfaction of the Japanese government and provoke those Japanese idiot officers to send troops to the Soviet Union again.
Far East.
As a result, the plan for the four-nation summit was shelved again.
By November, Roosevelt could not solve this problem and could only hold a meeting with Chang Kaishen and Churchill in Cairo, and then asked Stalin to hold another meeting in Tehran next door (a clerical error in the previous chapter, it was written as Yalta).
Throughout the meeting, Chang Kaishen was smiling and proud. Although Churchill did not like to see him, it was generally pleasant and did not reproduce the tragedy of Versailles as Chiang Kai-shek expected.
Roosevelt agreed to all China's postwar political and territorial demands, including gaining sovereignty over Ryukyu and the Diaoyu Islands.
This surprised Chang Kaishen. He just asked for the suzerainty of Ryukyu. If they couldn't reach an agreement, he just wanted to make Ryukyu independent. If they couldn't reach an agreement, then let Japan continue to rule Ryukyu. As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, Roosevelt directly
If Ryukyu is handed over to China, it is not suzerainty, but actual sovereignty.
In other words, Okinawa and other islands will belong to China from now on, and Yui Aragaki is also a Chinese girl.
Zhou Hexuan was very happy to receive the news in China, but that was all. No one knew whether the Americans would go back on their word.
Historically, the Soviet Union also obtained sovereignty over the Kuril Islands at the Yalta Conference, but the Americans didn't just change it. Not to mention the entire Kuril Islands. Later, the Soviet Union only wanted four of the islands, and the Japanese were still trying to deny it.
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Zhou Hexuan can only do so much. Regarding the annexation of Ryukyu, he is not optimistic or even sure that he can get the Diaoyu Islands, because after the war, China did not have the strength to fulfill it.
But at least, in this time and space, Aragaki Yui legally belongs to a Chinese girl!