The Archive · 1925

Policies of the Two Countries Reviewed

There are points of similarity between the Chinese and British tions; it is not for nothing that the Chinese is called the Anglo-Saxon ent, Tt is also true that Sndividuals and nations often see the sins of others most easily if they fare pronounced in themselves, What we regard as a good quality in our-elves may, if seen too glaringly in another, become a fault. But curely "it is bordering on the humorous for the Chinese to accuse any nation of Imperialism. Rather should she be expected to. see with wal an attitude of mind which the herself ought so well to understand, For. whatever the Chinese may say they really have fun imperialistic attitude of minds fand it has been a great blow to China of late years to find that she longer the patron of all her neighbour nations. China for ages has regarded herself as the Imperial monitor of all surrounding peoples, and has treated them with 2 sovereign patronage which could very severe whenever they Proved recalcitrant. Imperial means Delonging to an empire, the state of an emperor, predominant, All there qualities' China has been used to regarding as her own; and itis the Imperial spirit in her still which makes her rebel thing "that looks like foreign mastery. There is no great Western state that, cannot sympathize with such a spi

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