World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a> and the newly formed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Jingwei" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wang Jingwei">Wang Jingwei</a>-led <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reorganized_National_Government_of_the_Republic_of_China" id="mwhw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China">Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China</a>. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One_Demands" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Twenty-One Demands">Twenty-One Demands</a>.<sup about="#mwt70" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_30#cite_note-12" id="mwiQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwig">[12]</span></a></sup>
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