Flag of Wang Jingwei regime


During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the invading Japanese established a variety of puppet governments such as the Provisional Government of China and the Reformed Government of China which used the flag of Five Races Under One Union even though the legitimate Chinese Government had switched to the current day modern flag of the Republic of China.
When the Wang Jingwei regime was established on 30 March 1940 in Nanjing, Wang Jingwei was slated to take over the previous Japanese-installed governments and centralize the Chinese nationalists under what they claimed to be the legitimate successor to the Republic of China he demanded to use the modern flag as a means to challenge the authority of the Chongqing government under Chiang Kai-shek and position himself as the rightful successor to Sun Yat-sen.
The Japanese, however, preferred the five-colored Five Races Under One Union flag. As a compromise, the Japanese suggested adding a triangular yellow pennant on top with the slogan "Peace, National Construction" in black, but this was initially rejected by Wang and Zhou Fohai, the latter calling it a "pig's tail". Because of this deadlock, Chinese collaborator-run institutions sometimes refused to fly the pennant while Japanese-run institutions sometimes flew the five-barred flag. In the end, Wang and the Japanese agreed to use the white sun flag, with the yellow banner to be used outdoors only. The slogan was also later expanded to "Peace, Anti-Communism, National Construction" until 1943 when the banner was abandoned, leaving two rival governments with the same flag and each claiming to be the legitimate government of China.

Variants of the state flag

There were multiple variants of the pendent used by the Wang Jingwei Government, these variants were based on regional choice.

Naval jack and naval ensign

The war ensign was adopted in commemoration of the second anniversary that the capital was relocated on the 1 May 1942.