"Any one who is familiar with recent events in the Far East will readily perceive the fallacy of the above contentions, China's foreign policy since the Revolution has been based on the legitimate aspiration to attain independence and equality. It has been generally understood and sympathetically supported by all friendly nations, The Chinese Government has always respected legitimate foreign interests in China and welcomed foreign capital as well as technical assistance. The ever-increasing volume of Sino-foreign trade and the very friendly relations existing between the Chinese people and those of other countries to-day are concrete proofs of China's good neighbour policy which defy distortion by the Japanese.
"China and Japan are close neighbours, who are moreover tied by racial and linguistic afünity. It cannot but be the fervent desire of the Chinese Government and people to befriend their neighbouring country. Unfortunately ever since the days of, the Revolution of 1911, Japan has been pursuing ler continental ambitions at the expense of China. The episode of the Twenty-One Demands is still fresh in our memory. During the Nationalist. Revolution, Japan deliberately obstructed the northward advance of the Nationalist Army and prevented the unification of China under the new regime by precipitating the Tsinan Incident of 1928. One can hardly imagine that any nation which professes to welcome the aWakening of China's national spirit would have behaved in such a manner.
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