The Struggles And Cooperation Between Chiang Kai-shek And Wang Jingwei In The Second Cooperation

A relativly stable cooperation basis between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei plays a decisive role in the formation and existence of the second cooperation between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei. In a word ,this cooperation basis consists of two factors :the consensus about the policy to Japan between them and the basic characters about the power race in the KMT,leading to the political environment in the KMT at that time, furthermore they are in the close relation. However,as for Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei,the political surroudings and interestings respectively are of great differences, combining their strong appetite to leadership and the sense of the untrust between them resulting from struggles in the lomg time,so there are continuous contradictions and struggles under the frame of the cooperation between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei. Wang Jingwei suddenly denounced Zhang Xueliang, resulting in the tension between Wang Jingwei and Zhang Xueliang at August 1932.For the purpose of maximizing his political interestings, Chiang Kai-shek inplemented the policy of maintaining the status quo,but failed. Considering all layers of merits and weaknesses, Chiang Kai-shek decided to support Zhang Xueliang at the cost of the deterioration of cooperation between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei,leading to deviating from the policy of "balance between resistence and negociation".Hence Zhang Xueliang continued to rule the northern China, while Wang Jingwei left for Europe by the excuse of medical needs. As a result,the cooperation between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei approached to the rupture. After the occupation of Rehe by japanese troops,the political situation greatly changed,so Chiang Kai-shek decided to restore the relation with Wang Jingwei at the cost of the resignation from Zhang Xueliang, recovering the policy of "balance between resistence and negociation". Under the frame of the cooperation between Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei,however different Chiang ' s and Wang ' s political interestings and surroudings respectively,their respective political interestings temporarily yield to the common cooperation basis,limiting those struggle into the scope of maintaining the cooperation,because of relativly stable cooperation basis. As the cooperation basis disappearing,the cooperation between Chiang and Wang stepped into dead end in 1936 which,to some extent ,doomed the rupure of the cooperation between Chiang and Wang in 1938.