Evening star., 1926-02-05
READJUST RELATIONS OF
WHITE AND YELLOW PEOPLES
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! rope and Asia will naturally be held
In China, and apply primarily to the
radical change of China's status in its
relations to other nations. When there
is ii reasonably stable, responsible gov
| ernment to speak for China, or for
| either North China or South China
alone, tariff and eXtraterritoriality
! conferences may be held which viii
give promise of resulting in IL compre
hensive. reasonably satisfactory read
! JuStment OF relations.
| Such conferences and agreements
with the existing provisional and fluc
tuatinS Chinese government may be
useful for the opportunity given to the
| powers to compete in professions OF
/ goodwill toward the China that -is-to
be; but to make binding treaty agree
ments responsible party of the sec
ond part is today lacking.
Readjustment Conference Now Futile
| The fighting between ambitious wal
lords in China instead of strengthen
ing China'S demand for equality OF
| treatment among nations and con
| troll over her own affairs, has post
poned a reasonably satisfactory read
| JuStment OF relations through confer.
tii't, ny II Cle1l
! that there was and is no stable gov.
ernment of China, or of North China
or of South China. with which the
white nations could confer
There is something Sardonically
paradUNlcal in baSing an argument
for the immediate abandonment of
eNtraterritoriality and surrender of
the protection of foreign lives and
property to Chinese courts upon dis
orderly demonstrations of hostility tC
foreigners and of military contemp'
of restraint by the courts. In the
midst of arms the courts as we'll as
the laws are silent. A time when mer-
cenarN soldiers everywhere, like the
p.ague OF iocuStS, are draining the
poor, already driven desperate by the
threat of famine. and when the war
lords are eNtorting money from the
rich by threats and force, and when
iawless anti-foreign mobs. infiamed by
Soviet Russia, menace and terrify
Americans and other foreigners in
many Chinese cities and provinces, is
precisely not the time that the foreign
powers will select to abandon judicial
protection of the lives and property
of their nationals in China to hostile
! or impotent Chinese courts. The pow
| erS cannot now without cruel in
! justice to their own people in China
/ promise more than the future aban-
donment of eXtraterritoriality upon
| the complete fulfillmenI of distinct
| conditions. What power to protect
! American lives will Peking's pledges
| in lieu of eXtraterritoriality have in
Mukden. in Shanghai. in Hankow or
in Canton?
War Lords and the Tariff.
So far as the tariff conference is
concerned it is to be remembered that
strong COMBINATION of forces, politi-
cal and military, in China was op-
posed to any enlargement of the ma
tional revenue by increase of tariff
rates or otherwise, while Chang TSo-lin
stood in such relation to the pro.
visional government that would collect
it as to be able to use the larger rev
enue, not for China s development, but
to strengthen his own army and to
perpetuate Manchurian control
In Shanghai last September talked
with Tong Shao-yi, veteran diplomat
and statesman, who explained clearly
| this situation. Tong Shao-yi was
formerly premier and minister of
foreign affairs of China. He joined