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Find the link in our show notes. Hello, Hello, Prestige heads, and welcome to American Prestige.

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friends and comrade Derek Davison.

And we're very excited to welcome back to the podcast today, Yidi Wu, to continue our series on China.

Yidi is an assistant professor at Alon University or Elon University.

I don't know how precisely to say it. Not only that, she's the O'Brien's developing professor

as well. So Yidi, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me again. It's been a minute. It announced Elon, same as Elon Musk, but no relation between the two.

Oh, not yet. Maybe he'll buy it, and he'll just have Elon University. One can dream.

The real Elon University is his Twitter feed. You can learn so much from just reading his tweets.

So before we begin, though, we go into our main conversation, which is going to take up the history of China in the years after the Korean War. Yidi wanted

to clarify some issues that we talked about last time. So the first one would be on the relationship

between Nazi Germany and Chinese nationalists between the years 1933 to

1941. So Yidi, please. Yes, I like to go back to that point because both of you seem a little

surprised about that fact. And so I dig a little bit. I just want to make sure to clarify,

the relationship between the Nazi Germany and the Chinese Nationalist Party lasted from

1933 to 1941. and the Chinese Nationalist Party lasted from 1933 to 1941.

And the Chinese received both military and economic support to consolidate power over those

regional warlords and to resist Japanese imperialism.

But Germany officially cut off that relationship by 1941 and then re-aligned themselves

with Japan and to recognize the Japanese-controlled Wang Jingwei regime rather than continuing

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