All these ideas combined _have ited an environment for Young! China very different from the one in which the Treaties were agreed to, Ideas propel and support. They create and sustain movements, and so in China to-day there are a number of movements, most of then making for change. To one of those, the term nationalism has been given, The word has no exact equivalent} in Chinese. Indeed, in order to express the ideas contained in it, the [Chinese have had to group characters} together and to invent a new term. That fact is a significant one, indicating, to my mind, not only that} the idea is an unti one: to China, but that its expression in jection is likely to differ from the expression given to it in other parts of the world.
We may expect, accordingly, action differing from the kind of action which we should get} in the West, but the action is there, and that is what matters. What more, it is certain to go on being there, directed not necessarily always at the same point, but manifesting] itself nevertheless.
'A purely negative policy in China would, therefore, be foredoomed to failure. We mu: be prepared to] adapt and to change. We stand immobile on the basis of a set} of arrangements made when China was a very different country from ithe one she is to-day. Our Go ment has, I think, shown recognition of this fact. It has shown recog! tion also of the fact that a policy of patience and conciliation alone cannot succeed in China.
Tt is coneiliation and strength that lie inherent} the elements of success.
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