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The China Consortium and the Open Door
Bent, Silas | March 20, 1920 issue

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An opportunity has arisen for the peaceful enforcement in the Orient of that phase of American idealism known as the Open Door policy. This policy and the Monroe Doctrine may be called the only fixed points in the U.S. foreign relations, and both have the savor of altruism, but they differ in the motives from which they sprang. The Open Door has become a diplomatic white lie, and it would have remained so had not a remarkable combination of circumstances made possible its realization through the might, not of arms, but of dollars.

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INTERNATIONAL relations; EASTERN question (Far East); CHINA -- Foreign relations -- 1912-1949; UNITED States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921; CHINA; UNITED States; EAST Asia
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