The rulers of China in their mi gled despair and conceit have failed utterly to understand the Soviet's policy in Asia, In his May" Day speech Moscow Trotsky' whipped his audience into a fury of enthusiasm by anyuneing that the workers and Peasants were now going to turn their attention to the liberation of the oppressed peoples of Asia, This is no new policy. It was _adopted about thee years ago. when an Oriental Bureau was established in Irkutsk by a Mr. Popoff ly endowed with gold for the avowed Purpose of spreading Communist propaganda and the spirit of rebel-Tion against one thing or another the Mongols, Chinese, and Japanese." This step was followed up by similar enterprises in Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia, Afghanistan, id elsewhere. 'No one has' noticed any inclination [on the part of Moscow, however, to ud out great liberating armies.
he only "help" extended is give through: such agents as Karakhan who devote themselves to preaching hatred against the Occident.
Obviously the whole policy is to embroil the East with the West, to put an end to all friendly intercourse between the East and the West, both commereiat and diploma-_ tic, so that on the one hand Asia will be at the merey of Soviet Impenalism, while, on the other hand, the Occidental Powers which have hitherto stubbornly rejected the Bolshevik brand of, "berly" may be crippled through the loss of all Eastern connexions. It is very imple when you come to think of it, but it is something which Chinese conceit will not permit the average Chinese to grasp. They say to one another: "By all moans use Russia to repudiate our obligations and our treaties and put the foreigner in his place and then, when we are rid of this ancient incubus, we can easily turn round and get rid of the Rusquish these rights by formal treaty Russia has all that she could possi bly want at this juncture and China has nething. Russia can exploit her recognition by China at home und abroad and make splendid pro-the Soviet but the suspicion of a number of Powers who were consi
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