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To: jbe who wrote (45149)	7/13/1999 10:37:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

The American "protectiveness" of China against Britain, Japan and Germany was always a strange phenomenon -- "The Open Door". The bizarre use of some of the proceeds of Boxer reparations for scholarships, the strange career of Charlie Soong, the peculiar financing of Sun Yat Sen by American Chinese (especially in Hawaii), and the long missionary relationship with China by various American churches and universities (Yenching) made a much stronger sentimental relationship between many Americans and China than between the largely commercial relationships between the concerned European countries and China. Roosevelt cherished the myths about his piratical Delano ancestor who was an early China trader. The long US-Japan conflict starting with the "opening of Japan", Japan's aggressiveness in the Pacific during and after World War I, and Japan's reluctance to accept 5-5-3 in naval armaments was all part of whar was the worst kept secret of Pacific strategy that almost all Japanese and American strategists believed -- that US and Japan would someday fight to the finish over Pacific control. U.S. had long sought to keep China "neutral" as a weak block to both Chinese and Russian expansion. There was a strong "clannish" hatred between Japan and the US which was at its root racist. The so-called Gentlemen's agreement excluded Japanese immigrants and Japanese felt keenly the racial contempt that involved. For years, the Japanese were thought to be plotting to seize America's Pacific colonial possessions (and, as it turned out, they were). Thus it was not "clannishness" between Americans and Chinese, but racism against Japan (and everyone else of Asian ancestry) that was at the root of the Pacific conflict. Nevertheless, it was the refusal of the Japanese to promise to withdraw from China that precipitated the Great Pacific War in 1941.