IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. iv.] BLUFF. 81
they are kindly and warm-hearted. But I do
not think they would deny those whom I have
met have openly admitted that politically,
their object is to extend their influence over all
the countries bordering on their Asiatic Empire,
and wherever their influence has been extended
to exclude British trade. The policy of the
open door finds favour with us because we can
beat the Russians in commercial competition.
But the Russians prefer the door closed, with
themselves inside, and us on the outside.
They think that then they have a better chance.
Moreover, in pursuing this policy of absorp-
tion and exclusion, they are not afraid to resort
to bluff of the most audacious kind. Their
advance towards Herat, on to the Pamirs and
to Port Arthur, has in each case been carried
out by pure unmitigated bluff. And to one
who saw them, as I did, scarcely a dozen years
ago, crouching behind the Amur frontier in
scarcely disguised terror lest the Chinese by
land from Manchuria, and ourselves by sea
from Port Hamilton, should quietly close the
pincers and nip off Vladivostok, the audacity of
their coolly asking the Chinese to deliver up
their chief naval base, of their asking us to
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