ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses one of the most difficult of all the questions concerning China's relationships to foreign powers. Japan had to copy the worse side in order to save them from exploitation and very possibly from dismemberment. Japan which could have seen that opportunity would have been the Japan that might have helped China to solve her problem in a finer way than Japan has met hers. China was determined not to let German rights in Shantung pass into any other hands than hers. Japan followed up the successes gained with the European Allies by sending a special envoy to America. The whole course of events in Japan during the last fifty years proves not her special moral depravity so much as her amazing power of learning the lessons which Western nations were teaching her all the time, not by their professions, but by their actions in the Far East.
