| [00:00.00]One could only imagine [00:03.26]how the Chinese must have felt [00:05.34]at the turn of the century. [00:06.88]Could any American imagine a scenario [00:10.71]of the shoe being on [00:12.13]the other foot (putting themselves [00:14.31]in the place of the Chinese)? [00:16.39]How would Americans have felt [00:19.24]if Chinese gunboats patrolled [00:21.97]the Mississippi River up to St. Louis, [00:24.71]a major city in the heart [00:26.79]of America? What if the Chinese [00:29.63]could come and go anywhere [00:31.38]in the United States, being [00:33.35]completely immune to all American laws. [00:37.30]Could Americans accept Chinatown [00:40.75]in Boston of San Francisco [00:42.94]being under Chinese law, and [00:45.89]displaying signs with such captions [00:47.53]as “No Americans or dogs allowed”? [00:50.81]What if Manhattan Island and California [00:54.64]were annexed by China? Would Americans [00:58.58]tolerate their own officials [01:00.44]being in collusion with, and being [01:02.95]bribed by Chinese authorities, [01:05.25]to let all of above to [01:07.88]take place? One would think not. [01:10.95]Is it any wonder that [01:14.22]imperialism had become such [01:15.97]an abominable term to the Chinese people? [01:19.15]The Chinese have made some [01:22.32]conscientious attempts to fight back, [01:24.84]in efforts to defy foreign presence [01:27.68]in China, but without much support [01:30.20]during the slack reign of [01:32.38]the Qing Emperor and the Dowager Empress. [01:35.77]The Imperial family, for so long, [01:39.06]had been extremely selfindulgent. [01:42.02]It paid little attention [01:44.31]to the realities of what [01:46.37]was happening inside China. [01:48.33]For so long, the nation's policies [01:51.84]revolved around the whims of [01:53.81]the Imperial Family. [01:56.44]With reliance on its own resources, [01:59.82]a secret society, called the Order [02:03.54]of Literary Patriotic Harmonious Fists, [02:07.16]made one last desperate attempt [02:09.78]at revenge, to rid the country [02:12.30]of foreigners. In 1900, these Boxers [02:16.57]as they were called, stubbornly engaged [02:19.51]the foreign powers in conflict. [02:22.14]The former tore up railway tracks, [02:25.31]attacked Chinese Christians, besieged [02:28.93]foreign delegations, and eventually [02:31.45]slaughtered over three hundred foreigners. [02:34.29]The Americans collaborated with the Japanese, [02:37.90]consolidated forces and easily overwhelmed [02:41.95]the Boxers. The latter crumbled [02:45.34]under the pressure of foreign superiority [02:47.85]and its own deficiencies in equipment [02:50.70]and organization. The victors placed [02:54.38]severe controls on the crippled [02:56.13]Chinese Government and imposed heavy indemnities [03:00.72]of billions of dollars. The fact [03:04.11]that the foreigners were interested, [03:06.19]only in protecting their [03:07.83]own interests, was abundantly clear. [03:11.12]Aside from discriminatory immigration policy [03:15.93]against Chinese, the U.S. had no [03:18.66]official direct political or diplomatic relations [03:22.38]with China until the Second World War. [03:25.77]The United States took on [03:28.29]a much cherished isolationist approach [03:31.57]to world affairs following [03:33.40]the First World War, after having [03:35.48]established itself as a major world power. [03:39.19]The United States did not even [03:42.15]become a representative of [03:44.20]the League of Nations, essentially [03:46.49]the creation of its own then [03:48.57]President, Woodrow Wilson. This organization [03:52.62]was set up in 1919 to curb [03:55.79]international conflict, which could, [03:57.87]potentially, throw the world [04:00.60]into a war again. The absence of [04:03.99]this powerful nation was one of [04:06.62]the major weaknesses of this [04:08.37]organization and, consequently, a possible [04:12.20]factor that actually facilitated [04:14.06]the resumption of world conflict in 1939. [04:18.76]The Second World War [04:22.71]During the Second World War, [04:26.97]the United States and China were [04:29.16]allies against the common enemy, [04:31.56]Japan. A coalition of the United States, [04:36.49]British Commonwealth countries, [04:39.00]and other allies dispatched supplies [04:41.96]and other support to China [04:43.81]by way of the Burma Road and [04:46.22]by air over the hump (mountains), [04:48.85]to close in on Japan from the rear. [04:52.46]When war broke out in 1939, [04:57.05]China was experiencing a civil war, [04:59.90]the Nationalists versus the Communists. [05:03.18]This civil war was put on [05:06.36]hold while both the Nationalists [05:08.43]and Communists joined forces [05:10.84]to converge on Japan, which had, [05:13.14]intermittently, hovered over China [05:16.53]as a menace, or as an imperialist [05:18.61]thorn in its side, for a good [05:21.67]century before the war. The war [05:25.72]brought the United States out [05:27.35]of its splendid official isolation. [05:29.87]Once the war was over, [05:32.28]turbulent times continued to stalk China. [05:35.99]The civil war picked up [05:39.06]where it left off. The Americans [05:41.46]lent its moral support to [05:43.76]the Nationalists in their struggle [05:45.52]against the Communists, whereby [05:47.70]the United States began to formulate [05:50.22]its Cold War policy of “Containment” [05:52.84](Containing the spread of Communism). |
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