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ANNEX C

TEXT OF BASIC JAPANESE TERMS OF PEACE WITH CHINA

1. Neighborly friendship. 

2. Respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. 

3. Cooperative defense between Japan and China. 

Cooperation between Japan and China for the purposes of preventing 
communistic and other subversive activities which may constitute a 
menace to the security of both countries and of maintaining the public 
order in China. 

Stationing of Japanese troops and naval forces in certain areas in the 
Chinese territory for a necessary period for the purposes referred to 
above and in accordance with the existing agreements and usages. 

4. Withdrawal of Japanese armed forces. 

The Japanese armed forces which have been dispatched to China for 
carrying out the China Affairs will be withdrawn from China upon the 
settlement of the said Affairs, excepting those troops which come under 
point 3. 

5. Economic cooperation. 

(a) There shall be economic cooperation between Japan and China, having 
the development and utilization of essential materials for national 
defense in China as its principal objective. 

(b) The preceding paragraph does not mean to restrict any economic 
activities by third Powers in China so long as they are pursued on an 
equitable basis. 

6. Fusion of the Chiang Kai-shek regime and the Wang Ching-wei 
Government. 

7 No annexation. 

8 No indemnities. 

9. Recognition of Manchoukuo. (Ex. 29, Vol. II, p. 633)