ABSTRACT
The clue to China’s new policy towards the Western powers is that, with the exception of America, they do not count in the Far East, and that America is seen as the successor to Japan and to Japanese imperialism. Whatever changes war and revolution may bring, two abiding facts remain in China’s foreign relations: Japan is the only Asiatic power near enough to be a menace to China; Russia the only European power with a common frontier with China and an Asiatic extension of its homeland. Western and anti-Communist policy is based on the hope that the Chinese people will before long resent and resist Russian encroachment in Manchuria; if the Chinese Communist Government does not oppose Russia, then the people will transfer their support to some party that will. It is reasonable to suppose that the objective of China’s policy towards Japan is to promote in that country a revolution which will bring Japan into the Communist world.
