Editing Potsdam Declaration (section)

==== Republic of China ====
The Republic of China desired immediate withdrawal of the Imperial Japanese Army and its subsidiary force the Kwantung Army from all Chinese territory, including Manchuria. Until the very end of the war the Japanese Army had been campaigning in China to assert the rule of the Japanese colonial state there, and the Chinese Nationalists and Communists had been fighting in tandem to expel them from the country.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ienaga |first=Saburo |title=The Pacific War 1931–1945 |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1978 |pages=229–240}}</ref> The Potsdam Declaration was issued in part to make clear the Chinese expectation of complete Japanese withdrawal from China.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003 |title=Potsdam Declaration |url=https://ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/etc/c06.html |website=National Diet Library}}</ref>