The Archive · 1920

Tuchuns Thriving on Mutual Enmity

seems impossible for the pea: e delegates representing Peking and Canton to come to any sort of an agreement whereby peace can be restored in China. These delegates do not represent organized governments, and this is one of the many reasons why they have failed to accomplish anything. There is no such thing as the Peking or the Canton government. Each of the "delegates on either side represents a faction in the so-called government of Peking and Canton, but does not represent a union of the many factions that now dominate the political situation in Peking and Canton. At present neither Wang I-tang nor Tang Shao-yi receives the solid support of the junior delegates under them. It would be difficult for Wang I-tang or Tang Shao-yi to state what terms would be satisfactory to the North and South, for there has been no agreement on either side of the terms for peace. The delegates are daily fighting among themselves just as the factions ther represent are quarrelling with each other in Peking and Canton. There is no unity of organization and, therefore, no unity of purpose.

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