As one of the five topics of the Paris Peace Conference, China and Shandong issue, China, as the victorious country, demanded to recover all the illegal rights and interests of Germany in Shandong, while Japan invoked the Sino-Japanese agreement. It demanded that all the rights of Germany in Shandong be transferred to Japan. The United States advocates that German rights and interests in Shandong should be managed by international organizations first, and then handed over to China after Shandong is fully opened.

Britain, France and Italy always support Japan's unreasonable demands. Because Britain and France intend to belong to the first category of countries that enjoy overall interests in the conference, as well as the United States and Japan. These five countries can participate in any meeting of the CPC. It will naturally help Japan get the benefits it wants. China's just request was ignored, and the China delegation refused to sign the contract.

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The main purpose of China's diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference was to recover Shandong's rights and interests. The task of Japan's plenipotentiary is to "ask Japan to take over all kinds of rights and property of Germany in Shandong Province and own the Nanyang Islands north of the equator occupied by Germany." Therefore, the Shandong issue became the main criterion for judging whether China's diplomacy failed at the Paris Peace Conference.

At first, China thought it was natural to recover Shandong's rights and interests as a victorious country. However, after attending the Paris Peace Conference, as the Japanese insisted on inheriting German rights and interests in Shandong, how to win back the rights and interests of Shandong became the primary task of the China delegation. The delegation believes that "the Shandong issue is the most urgent at present, so the questions raised are limited to this.

I am deeply afraid that if all questions are raised at the same time, European and American countries will inevitably be biased towards each other because of their respective interests and will be isolated in our country. "On April 30, 2009, the meeting of the United States, Britain and France decided that Germany would cede all the rights and interests of Shandong to Japan, and Japan would return the German concession and other political rights to China, but retain its economic rights.

Due to Japan's opposition, the final text of the treaty only stated that Germany ceded it to Japan, but "there was no mention of returning it to China".

Baidu Encyclopedia-Paris Peace Conference