Assertion that Present Gloomy Outlook for Representative]
Government in China is More Apparent than Real 1 following views of Dr. Chran Cha, Scerctary Genera of the Chines hereto Delegation at Cescees ere of terest Bangs Chow may not be entirely Though the Japanese "positive; policy" and the latest Soviet activi ties in China are claiming more her attention just for the moment, China's interest in Europe will, however, grow in proportion to the degree of the stabilization of her internal conditions. The outstanding cause for this inevitable rapprockement lies mainly in the fact that China and Europe, though cradles of two different civilizations /have much in common and still more to learn from each other.
Even at this transitional stage, China will have to seek from Europe the various formul@ and the exact) procedure for her reconstruction and the completion of her social and industrial revolutions. the subsequent establishment of numerous independent and rival States, has succeeded in building upon the ruins of feudalism many great nations. This phenomenon has greatly troubled the- Chinese political thinkers. They have been searching for the cause of Chinese political stagnation in the light of the histories of both Chia and Europe. The answer seems to in the defective system of dynastic government so long practised in China rather than in the unification of China under one Government.
This explains the repeated revolutions in China and the expeditions of Commissioners from China to Europe for the study of the political conditions here, great a role Europe will be able to play in China during this period will, of course, depend upon the motive and manner ith which it ie going to proceed.
China has never needed capital and technical assistance so badly as at present, ind will be ready to accept such offers from Europe if they are made }to her on normal terms and are not tainted with ulterior designs view of the complications arising of China's foreign relations in the past, it is only natural that, she has to be exceptionally cautious; in dealing with the foreign Powers. Such titude on the part of China wil of course, quickly disappear if the European Powers, }who are enjoying a privileged status there, will appreciate the importance the opening of the whole of China and will not insist on a con-leged position. one phase in'
which has always received, and will certainly contin de-mendi. the attention of is the rich experiences o political development and the vast variety of governmental systems that are actually in practice here. The attitude of China towards Europe in this respect is one of admiration and scrupulous study. One will recall that since the break-
There are at present three schools of thought in China as to the gov-emmental system that should be applied there. All of them reflect the views of the political thinkers prevailing in some part of Europe. The first one is the system of a personal dictatorship as practised now in Italy and Spain. This represents the view of practically all the military men in China and also that fof some of the returned students from abroad. Their aim is to secure an enlightened government first and to proceed Inter with the necessary reforms with a view to the demoeratization of China. But this idea of @ personal dictatorship has never been popular with the students who constitute the main body of the Chinese intellectual class. It is feared that the dictator may create a new dynasty for himself if he proves to be a strong man, or may' Decome a tool of his satellites if happens to be unequal to the job.
The second current of* political thought which reflects that of Europe is the system of party dictatorship. This represents the views of the Nationalist Party, now in power in China. They learned this during the period of their ce with Soviet Russia and up of Chinese feudalism, over two thousand years ego, and the uni fication of the Chinese Empire under Emperor Chinshihhuang in 249 B.C, Chinese history has been invariably marked by a straggle between the Central and local other hand Europe, with its feudalism broken up' over jeighteon hundred years later, and stockade was surrounded by a moat and defended by ugly-looking spikes. The Gurkha seldom if ever moved party dictatorship are on the whole jlar to those for a personal tatorship. There is, however, ne ference, that is, the Nati agree that to unify so extent! country like that of China it would impossible to rely merely on the
In their opinion it could only me man or one family. possible through a nation political party.
Mere the Nationalists are certainly correct. What is weak in them the conduct of the few yards without his loaded rifle and when enjoying a game of football they carried their rifles on to the have refused to take into their con-play fiotd with them. To me, this fidence the views of the Chinese more than anything, revealed the people who are of members of their extreme danger of this outlying party. Unless such people apply British outpost. Perched on a high for membership of the Nationa tower at one end of the stockade Party, they must be denied civie was a dark Gurkha sentinel. This rights and placed under the tutelage watchman on the frontier is relieve: of the Nationalists. As a result, in the routine of regular military the present system of government uty, but there is never a moment, is not responsible at all to the Chi. day or night, when the steady eye nese people and is only indirectly of the sentinel permits his comrades} subject to the control of the mem-to be taken by surprise. Tragedi bers of the Nationalist Party. This cruel and fierce have taken pi system of government has replaced along this frontier, and tragedies fierce and cruel may take pi 7 2 external rivalry with internal dis-vain, "Dut not if hose faihtut wension of the party, and tended to Gurkhas can help it. lereate a privileged class among the Some 70 miles from Sadyia marks Chinese people. It is now greatly feared in China that unless the the extreme point to which the Nationalists hasten to have their Chinese armies of Chao Er-feng came in 1911, Tt almost seems in-mandate confirmed by a People's conceivable that Chinese soldiers Convention all that they are doing should have penetrated so far into at present may amount. only to a the wild Mishmi country and that 10 usurpation of the inalienable rights many should have returned the Chinese people.
jechuan to tell the tale. Physically The attainment of the form of al and geographically the territory representative government as_prac-north of Burma and Assam seems tised in Great Britain and France utterly and hopelessly impossible, and to this day, even the arms of the British army are helpless against the poisoned arrows of the treacherous Mishmi. The Chinese revolution broke out'and the Chinese armies were recalled, Many an old Chinese soldier, however, may stil he discovered along the border, ani one fellow I spoke to came from Shanhsi-kai, Chengtu. Tt was a real pleasure to' chat once again in the Tanguage of West China, and so far vay, and to hear an old Chinese soldier talk about Lan-tai-si and Gu-fa-an and Yachow and Tachienlu. represents the third school of, thought in China. It is to be remembered that for forty years Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the "father" of the Nationalist. Party, had struggled for its realization. Though in 1924 he gave himself away to the Soviet system as a party organization, he had, however, always looked to a People's Convention for the solution of Chinese national problems. It was under his inspiration and at} the direction of his followers that the Provisional Constitution of March 11, 1912, was promulgated at Nanking. This was followed and
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