Eyes on' China

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 4

Eyes on' China

The cables about the dissolution of] China have more in them than meets I the eye. In our opinion they are more than anything else propaganda in favour of some form of intervention that is now in preparation. Last week we commented on the British proposal to America in reference to a joint naval'patrol of China's; foreign administration and especially of a. certain railway in the Celestial Empire, which America in a somewhat unfriendly spirit rejected, and we. recall the series of articles cabled out not long ago from the "Morning Post" which clearly conveyed the impression that Japan's position in China should not be tolerated. All this gives some indication of what is passing behind the scenes, and throws some. light on the apparent (more so than real) solicitude of the British authorities for the Chinese. There are millions of British capital invested in China; the world's capitalists look upon that country as the last remaining outlet for their surplus capital, and what we are dimly ■permitted to perceive is the first beginnings of the struggle for a. monopoly of that market, for concessions of railways and mines and what not, Add Singapore to the picture and things receive a little more illumination. What is called the defence of the Pacific is really a preparation for the loot of China.