jan 12, 1922 - Tensions Increase in Beijing

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Having jointly seized Beijing in 1920, the Fengtian and Zhili cliques controlled the nominal government of northern China. Tensions soon began building between the two cliques in their uneasy coalition government. The Fengtian clique replaced Premier Jin Yunpeng with Liang Shiyi without getting the prior consent of their partner, the Zhili clique. While the Zhili clique had secured the backing of the Germans (they had been vocally opposed to Duan’s attempts to take China into the war on the side of the Entente), with the Fengtian leader was backed by Japan. The Japanese government had once supported the Anhui clique, but had switched their focus to the Fengtian soon after the change of power, but kept their ties with the Anhui.

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