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But Yoshihide Tanaka came here alone, so many things were finalized quickly.The two sides have signed a large number of letters of intent for cooperation in education and industrial construction.

On April 1935, 4, Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi met again individually.

This time Tanaka Yoshiichi talked about the issue of military cooperation between China and Japan.It is not a military alliance, but a military-technical cooperation.The two sides have cooperated in the development of some military weapons.

These include the development of aircraft, tanks, and artillery.

Duan Xun asked for the support of the Japanese Navy to allow China to build an aircraft carrier with a displacement of [-] tons, and also support China to build heavy cruisers, etc.

On April 1935, 4, a week after Tanaka Yoshiichi came to China, Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi held formal negotiations.In fact, the general idea, Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshihide met in private once or twice, and they have already talked about the same.It should be said that Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi have privately communicated what they will do in the future.

The so-called formal negotiations are actually more clear about the cooperation between the two parties.

Formal negotiations cover many areas.It took four days in total.From educational cooperation, technical cooperation, economic cooperation, political cooperation to military cooperation, there are various contents.

到了1935年4月13日，段勋和田中义一的谈判正式结束。双方在很多方面都达成了合作协议。1935年4月14日，田中义一结束了在中国十天的访问，回到了日本。

On April 1935, 4, Chinese Foreign Minister Yan Shichao and Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota held a press conference.First, some cooperation projects between the two parties were announced.

But these are little things.

The real thing is that Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi issued the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement".This is the biggest achievement of this meeting between Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi.

The "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement" signed by Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi is divided into the general outline and the Asian part. Once it was announced, it attracted worldwide attention.The relationship between China and Japan has been good in recent years, and a lot of contracts have been signed.But there has never been a time when the heads of the Chinese and Japanese governments, Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi, met and negotiated in person.What they talked about depends on what was announced after the meeting.So when the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement" was announced, many reporters came.

Yoshiichi Tanaka's visit to China has already attracted the attention of the great powers.The big powers worried that China and Japan would change the situation in the Far East.Everyone is guessing what the two sides will talk about after Yoshiichi Tanaka visits China.

Now it is finally going to be announced, and of course it has attracted a lot of media.

The general outline of the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement" is divided into five parts and more than 20 details.The five parts are the first part: all people are equal regardless of skin color, ethnicity, or gender.

Part Two: Respect the history and culture of each country and nation.

The third part: against oppressing the colonial nation and treating the colonized people equally.

Part IV: Support for national self-determination.

Part Five: Support the development of international trade and oppose tariff wars.

If you look at the five parts of the general outline of the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement" decades later, it seems that they are all empty slogans and nothing real.

But in fact, these are not useless empty slogans, but a genuine diplomatic statement by China and Japan.Because this is a very clear attitude.These things were born out of the "Fourteen Peace Principles" of US President Wilson in the early years, and the foreign policy announced by the Soviet Union when Lenin was there, including the recently popular content of national liberation.

In fact, these things are all in the same line, and they all have one central meaning, which is to oppose colonization.

Both the United States and the Soviet Union hope to break the colonial system dominated by Britain and France and re-establish a new world order.In addition to them, China, Germany, and Japan, which developed later, all have such ideas.Because the current colonial system is beneficial to Britain and France, and not conducive to those countries that have no colonies that will rise later.Even if the United States has the Philippines, and Japan owns half of the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan, they are nothing in the current colonial system and have no sense of existence at all.

Compared with Britain and France, the two countries have large colonies.They relied on plundering the raw materials of the colonies, and selling the industrial products they produced to the colonies, gaining a lot of profits from them, and developing their own industries.This colonial circular economy maintained the economic control of Britain and France over the world.It's okay to control the economy alone, but Britain and France also control the politics and military of the colonies. Once something happens, these colonies will swarm to support their suzerain.The result is that Britain and France, relying on the current colonial system, control all aspects of world politics, economy, and military affairs, and become the current world hegemony.

Compared with these two countries, the United States and Japan, including Germany and the Soviet Union, do not have such capabilities.

Their industry can only develop on their own, and there is no colony for them to complete the cycle.And what annoys them even more is that Britain and France enclose their colonies and impose high tariffs on other countries to prevent other countries from doing business with their colonies.This greatly offended countries such as the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan.

After all, the world is so big, but the productivity of industrial countries has greatly improved in recent years, and more and more industrial products are produced.They all need a market to digest their industrial products, and they also need to get those raw materials at a low price.But where the current market is and where the raw material suppliers are, they are all in those colonies.However, the interests of the colonies were monopolized by Britain and France, which excluded the later developed industrial countries. How could these later developed industrial countries be satisfied.

So one industrial country after another is challenging this world order.

First, in World War I, Germany challenged Britain and France.As a post-developing industrial country, Germany needs these colonies more than Britain and France.But Germany lost and World War I was hammered to death by Britain and France.

Then came the United States.

The "Fourteen Points of Peace Principles" formulated by US President Wilson before participating in the Paris Peace Conference were aimed at the colonial systems of Britain and France.Among the "Fourteen Peace Principles" proposed by Wilson at that time, two slogans had the greatest impact on the colonial system.One is the slogan of national self-determination, which has a great influence on the colonies.How many young students in the colonies were inspired by Wilson's slogan and started a vigorous national liberation movement.

Including China's neighbor North Korea, those North Korean rebels and those North Korean students were greatly encouraged by Wilson's slogan of national self-determination.The so-called 3.1 Independence Movement emerged.Even during the May [-]th Movement in China, those young people were inspired by Wilson's national self-determination.

Another slogan with greater influence is trade liberalization.

Wilson's freedom of navigation on the high seas, the removal of economic barriers among countries, and the establishment of trade equality all advocate trade globalization and trade liberalization.Because the United States is the first industrial country, it is looking for markets around the world.Ask Britain and France to open up their colonial markets.

If these two things can really be realized, then the colonial system built by Britain and France will really collapse.It's a pity that Britain and France are not fools, how can they let the United States get what they want.Therefore, Wilson's proposal was directly rejected by Britain and France.At the Paris Peace Conference, the United States also lost a lot of face.The United States even refused to participate in the League of Nations in a rage.

And those vigorous national liberation movements were basically unsuccessful.Because the world is still a colonial system established by Britain and France, the strength of Britain and France is still strong.

Then came the Soviet Union.

Why is the influence of the Soviet Union growing? The European and American powers hate the Soviet Union very much and wish to strangle the Soviet Union to death.It is because the Soviet Union exported revolution.When the Soviet Union exported revolutions, one of the most important things was to export the idea of ​​national liberation.The idea of ​​national liberation exported by the Soviet Union was liked by many young students in the colonies.At present, most of the resistance organizations in many colonies in the world have been affected by the national liberation of the Soviet Union.

In fact, from Germany to the United States, and later the Soviet Union, regardless of their slogans and methods, they all have the same goal.Break the current colonial system dominated by Britain and France.

The general outline of the joint statement issued by China and Japan also inherits their ideas and inherits their ideas.It is also against the colonial system built by Britain and France.It's just that, like Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union before them, we will not directly say that we oppose the current world order, and that we want to overthrow the current colonial system.

But the meaning is that.

This is also the central idea of ​​the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement".

Then there is the Asian section.

The Asian part is also divided into five parts, which is actually the Asian version of the general outline.

The first part: All ethnic groups in Asia respect each other's history, traditions, and cultures to maintain friendship and stability among ethnic groups and establish a new peaceful order.

The second part: among Asian nations, respect each other's choices, support the self-determination of all nations, and coexist and prosper among all nations.

The third part: Increase exchanges between various Asian nations, give play to each other's historical and cultural advantages, and create a new Asian culture.

The fourth part: the sincere cooperation between the various ethnic groups in Asia on the basis of equality and reciprocity, and the development of the Asian economy.

The fifth part: the Asian nations and the nations of the world have close exchanges, abolish racial discrimination, abolish racial inequality, increase cooperation with all nations in the world, maintain world peace, and promote world economic development.

On April 1935, 4, after the foreign ministers of China and Japan announced the results of the talks between Duan Xun and Tanaka Yoshiichi, the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement", they did not end the press conference, but continued to announce the results of the talks.

In order to implement the terms of the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement", China and Japan decided to establish the Asia Joint Organization.The Asia United Organization invites Asian countries, regions, and ethnic organizations to participate.

The purpose of the United Asia Organization is to respect the history of Asian nations, respect the cultures of Asian nations, respect the self-determination of Asian nations, respect the sovereignty of Asian countries, oppose the opium trade, oppose the slave trade, and support equality between men and women.The function of the Asia United Organization is to coordinate the contradictions among various ethnic groups in Asia, coordinate the contradictions among Asian countries, maintain peace and stability in Asia, and promote economic development in Asia.

Currently, there are only two countries in the Asian United Organization, namely China and Japan, the founding countries of the Asian United Organization.The Asia United Organization has set up two headquarters, one in Tokyo, Japan, and the other in Beijing, China.The various institutions under the Asian Joint Organization will be established in Tokyo and Beijing according to specific circumstances.

Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota served as the first secretary-general of the Asian United Organization, and Gu Weijun, the Chinese representative to the League of Nations, left the League of Nations and returned to Beijing to serve as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Asian United Organization.Hirota Koki's term of office is two years. After two years, he will be replaced by a Chinese as the secretary-general and a Japanese as the deputy secretary-general.

Hirota Koki announced that in September 1936, the first meeting of the Asian Joint Organization would be held.

This is a political organization.

At the same time, in order to develop Asian culture and science, China and Japan jointly established Asia University to absorb students from various Asian countries and ethnic groups in Asia.In order to develop the Asian economy, China and Japan jointly established the Asian United Bank.

The content of cooperation is very rich.

The world powers are stunned.Although China and Japan have not signed any agreements such as military alliances, it can be seen from these things alone that there is a tendency for the two countries to unite.