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Part III - The Settlement: The Modern Era in Far Eastern Diplomacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2010

S. C. M. Paine
Affiliation:
United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
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Last July when Japan declared war on China, Europe could not help feeling quite a keen sense of astonishment. It did not fail to find presumptuous this little country which set about playing the role of the aggressor against a much more vast empire, whose population exceeded its own by several hundreds of millions and whose resources are considered inexhaustible.

Le Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, February 1895

In a few months, “frivolous, superficial, grotesquely imitative, little Japan” had become “the predominant factor in the Far East” – “a nation to be reckoned with in all future international combinations affecting Eastern Asia” – “a rising naval power” … Governments that had, in the past, treated Japan with scant courtesy, now seriously considered the question of an alliance with her. Other great Powers paid her the almost equally great compliment of looking upon her as a dangerous rival … Friends and foes alike had begun to grasp the changed situation. The New Far East was born.

Arthur Diósy, London-born writer, founder of the Japan Society, knight commander of Japan's Order of the Rising Sun
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The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895
Perceptions, Power, and Primacy
, pp. 245 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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