These various switches of Japanese policy, plus another switch now if Japan follows Berlin's dictate, serve chiefly to indicate to informed observers of Far Eastern affairs that Japan is less interested in any political hitching of her ricksha to any Axis star than she is in hitching it to whatever power and power-machine looks most likely to create conditions in which Japan's cherished expansionist ambitions can most quickly come to fruition.
In other words, Washington observers state, there is no Japanese policy other than of the opportunist variety, whose aim is hegemony of Asia—at least to begin with, if Japan foresees the early defeat of Russia at German hands and consequently new opportunities for aggression either against Siberia or in the south towards the Dutch Indies.
She may. many here think, regret her recent pact with Russia, but will probably remember that Britain and the United States have given Russia moral support, which is likely to be backed up by considerable material aid.
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