Government, the essay on foreign policy has done more to convince foreigners of the futility of expecting a serious consideration of China's foreign relations than any document in recent months. For, we have ood reason for stating, it was {issued not to impress the foreism Powers, but rather t" muddle the general political situation. Some last week, Dr. C. T. Wang was pointed Nanking's Minister of Forelen Affairs. He takes office, it understood, to-day or to-morrow. The smallest' courtesy that the Genro in Nanking could have shown him was to permit him to. state Nanking's foreign _poliey inaugural address. But the irresistible itch for essay-writing forced them to commit a breach of etiquette and taste. end now we' foreigners are puzzled ts know whether Dr. C. T. Wang is to conduct Narking's foreign policy whether the Gento, who wrote this masterpiece, are conducting it. Of course, with the Commission system in vogue in Nanking. na one can tell where the centre of authority is, for always behind the scenes, probably in some alley in Shanghai. is a scribe, whose brilliant dialect frightens all the rulers in Nanking into resigning forthwith. Authority,
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