One would think that by this time China knew her business quite as well as anybody else, and yet we find her so-called friends remarking "the most interesting thing would be to find out how to open up China." Is it not fair to ask whether China has not views of her own as to how she should be opened up? Judging from the way some people talk, China is very much in the position of some joint at 4 sacrificial feast with every guest trying to discuss how they can best carve it up to their own advantage, while all the while pretending, that they really have no personal interest in the matter at all, and that they are really actuated by the greatest goodwill towards the animal which has furnished the chief dish the evening.
Really, I think a lot of what believe the English call "unctuous
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