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Excerpt from The Fall of Tsingtau: With a Study of Japan's Ambitions in China While China may nominally be in possession of many of its sovereign rights, the fact is, the power which controls Tokyo, for all intents and purposes, now controls the Government at Peking. Events yet to take place in the Far East may be depended on to prove this assertion. Be that as it may, China, we believe, will yet be a nation independent, possessing sov ereign rights, and governed by its own people. For the Chinaman remains a Chinaman. De prive him of his country, isolate him from his people, and whether you find him in Caracas, Cape Town, or Halifax, he, and his generations that follow, will cling to the customs of his former country. The Chinese have not learned what patriotism is. They will in time. Then let a leader arise to join in one cause the four hundred and fifty millions of people of China; let patriotism once be grasped by them after repeated humiliations, such as have already been their lot in the last thirty years, and then one will recall the words of Napoleon, who said of China, There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep; for when he moves he will move the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.