The Archive · 1925

Where Danger Lies

'A foreign nation has no need to fear the Chinese who adopts a strictly Chinese attitude toward China's, problems." Such a man may be wrong-minded according. to our understanding of the problem but he will play no. dirty tricks. The dangerous Chinese official is he who sells out to any foreign country, who betrays his own nation to another. The present Tuan Chi Government consists of men who in 1918, and 1920 sold their country to Japan for gold. The total Jamount of the Nishihara Loans has been wasted by these men in polities, Japan has publicly changed her policy toward China and has received much praise for the change, but we must not forget the Chinese who in those three" years bargained away the fate of the country. They ave as great a menace to docent foreigners in China as to China. troops in the armies of Feng Yuhsiang, Chi Hsieh-yean or Wu Pei-fo, They had no foreign legions Red, White or Japanese, to support them. They had none of the millions of the Nishihara Loans to help them. In fact, they had no foreign loans to support their activities. There was no particular} need of these guaranteeing to} respect treaties; in their territories treaties on the whole were not trampled on, although these three: men openly advocated revision, as: all Chinese advocated revision, The British and American Govern ments in China hastened to re-agnize this Government as they hastened to recognize the Gover! ment of Tso Kun. Then they spoke of treaties; to-day they speak of treaties. The wily Wellington Koo knew how to play them on the treaty, question; the oily Anfu Club know even better, of course, they will fulfil all ' obligations and respect treaties; they will refcognine what concerns them most, the obligation of the Nishihara

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