Due to the collapse in rapid success sion of Chinese economic centres the Nationalist Government has been obliged to recede further into the interior where China now must depend' upon foreign aid for military goods and funds for the continuation Of her resistance, Whichever way she may turn, China is doomed, he forecast, because her need to lean to the left has been demonstrated by the liaison between the Nationalist Government and the Communist party since the outbreak of the conflict.
This conflict of necessities has placed not only China but third Party Powers crossroads.
The withdrawal of support by the democratic countries, which are aiding the Nationalist Government, if the Kuomintang accelerates its swing to the left is a foregone conclusion, the article insisted. This would leave only the Soviet Union as an effective aid. Such a development, the Hermit believes, would not be favourable to the interests of China from the standpoint of her foreign relations.—Domei.
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