V.—The Kuominchun Attitude Towards Foreign Trade: An Idea for Foreign Merchants: Country Ridden With the Hate of Petty Tuchuns Frou a Srectat The advantages of foreign trade ace probably well realized by the Kuominchun, but their attitude is the extreme. The foreign "encroachment." It is most as hard to convince a merchant as a student that the foreigner and his consul do not nourish, of territorial or nomic Wherever Chinese rule is most securely estabished, this distrust is most openly shown, In these areas, there is a growing determination to make the individual foreigner buy his way ut of the ports into the interior at the price of an increased (Chinese supervision over his person and more especially his bank-account. And ils attitude, conversely, has. the effect of making most.' foreigners shy of any evolutionary tendency hat leads away from the treaty port system and the security of the eon-
The resentful attitude towards foreign "privileges" is one reason for the "Bolshevik" and "Red" ad-Jectives that shave been tacked on the Kuominchun name, Russia is the foreign Power to which they have conceded most, in return for benefits received. Part of the payment has Deen in instigation of intely student policies and adolescent statesmanship calculated to embar-rational action by, the Powers China, Essentially, however, like all Chinese, they dislike the imputation of foreign tutelage, The core of their statomanship Is to play off one foreign Power against another, while gaining time to develop. their individual policies. The mea sures of the Kuominchun ruling their own roost are very different. from the verbiage of their publicists. the Tom Tiddlex's ground of king.
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