One of the reasons for China's present difficult position in its international relations is the tricky diplomacy of the Mane chus and their Chinese minis ters, Their efforts to play off one foreigner against the other and their entering into secret rangements with various foreign nations led to the division of China into spheres of influence and almost resulted in a partition of China among the Principal nations of the world.
From this danger China has finally been saved by the volun= tary action of the Powers of Europe and Japan in the organization of the Consortium and through the decisions of the Washington Conference, Chint lacking' military power, is de pendent upon those nations for a continuation of a policy to and to
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