The Chinese Puzzle by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 47.

The Chinese Puzzle.

By Editor

The Christian Advocate asks the question, "Who can say that beneath the Chinese incipient negotiations something is not going on in the interior that may bring about another test?" Yes, who can? And the same paper further remarks: "The negotiations of the powers with respect to China are in such a condition as not to admit of intelligent comment. Whatever is likely to prevail is claimed by each nation as having been first suggested by it, with the single exception of Russia, which declares that it has no particular policy and will coalesce with the powers; whereas any one acquainted with Russian history knows that for the last eighty years (whatever it has claimed or suggested) it has marched forward with a 'step as steady as time, and appetite as keen as death' in the pursuit of its own vast purposes." And these are about the facts at present.