Wang Jingwei
- Category : 1883-births
- Type : MEG
- Profile : 6/3 - Role Model / Martyr
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Incarnation 1
Biography
Chinese politician (alternative spellings: Wang Ching-wei, Wang Tsching-Wei, Wang Tshing-Wei) and political competitor with Chiang Kai-shek over control of the Kuomintang. Losing the political battle to Chiang Kai-shek he ultimately gives his allegiance over to the Japanese when they invade China in 1937. In reward the Japanese invaders appoint Wang Jingwei head of the collaborationist government in Nanjing. Under Japanese occupation he was President of the Republic of China. It wasn’t a republic at all. It was an occupation and conquest by Japanese Imperial forces in their efforts to establish a new empire in Asia. Wang's government is allies with the Axis forces in WW II and while in exile in Europe he associates personally with Hitler. He maintains associations with Hitler as well as Mussolini until death. Because of Wang’s betrayal of his native country in WW II his name in both mainland China and Taiwan is a term for “traitor.”