106 years ago today, on April 16, 1919 (March 16, 1919, the United States proposed that Shandong Province should be jointly managed by five countries. On April 16, 1919, the five-nation meeting discussed the Shandong issue, but the China representative was unable to participate. U.S. Secretary of State Lansing proposed a new plan to temporarily take over Germany's rights and interests in China at the Paris Peace Conference and return it to China after Shandong is opened as a commercial port. Japanese representative Makino protested, believing that the Chinese and Japanese governments had an agreement on the Shandong issue and that Japan should hand it over to China. The Lansing plan failed. On the 17th, the United States proposed that the Shandong issue be handled by the five powers. The United States said: "The China issue is related to the world. The United States has no intention of handling it alone, nor can it allow other countries to handle it alone." The foreign ministers 'meeting of the five countries initially designated the Shandong issue as temporarily managed by the five major countries. Japan still expresses its opposition. The Beijing government sent a telegram to Lu Zhengxiang, agreeing to temporarily manage Shandong by the five countries on the premise that Shandong must be returned to China. At this time, Italy's territorial claim against Fiume was rejected by major powers, and Italy announced its withdrawal from the Paris Peace Conference. Japan immediately hardened its attitude, claiming that if it did not agree to its demands, it would withdraw from the peace conference with Italy. Wilson tried to save the Peace Council from bankruptcy and decided to sacrifice China to meet Japan's demands. American Wilson is no longer a backer of China.