Which Chinese leader was listed as an issuer of the Potsdam Declaration?

Chiang Kai-shek was listed as an issuer of the Potsdam Declaration. The document was released on July 26, 1945, in the names of the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.

At the time, Chiang led the Republic of China, the government recognized by the Allied powers. Although China’s leader was not physically present at the Potsdam Conference, his government participated in the declaration. The statement called on Japan to surrender and outlined Allied objectives for the postwar settlement.

The declaration is sometimes confused with the Potsdam Conference itself, whose principal leaders were Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill, later replaced by Clement Attlee. Stalin did not endorse the July 26 declaration because the Soviet Union had not yet entered the war against Japan. After the Soviet declaration of war in August, the document became part of the framework Japan accepted before the formal surrender.