New forces in old China : an unwelcome but inevitable awakening . gners regarded China as the carcass of theEast. Nor was all this talk empty boasting. China saw that Francewas absorbing Siam and had designs on Syria; that Britain wasalready lord of India and Egypt and the Straits Settlements;that Germany was pressing her claims in Asiatic Turkey; thatRussia had absorbed Siberia and was striving to obtain controlof Palestine, Persia and Korea; and that Italy was trying totake Abyssinia. Moreover the Chinese perceived that of thenumerous islands of the world, France had the Loyalty, Society,Mar
New forces in old China : an unwelcome but inevitable awakening . gners regarded China as the carcass of theEast. Nor was all this talk empty boasting. China saw that Francewas absorbing Siam and had designs on Syria; that Britain wasalready lord of India and Egypt and the Straits Settlements;that Germany was pressing her claims in Asiatic Turkey; thatRussia had absorbed Siberia and was striving to obtain controlof Palestine, Persia and Korea; and that Italy was trying totake Abyssinia. Moreover the Chinese perceived that of thenumerous islands of the world, France had the Loyalty, Society,Marquesas, New Hebrides and New Caledonia groups, andclaimed the Taumotu or Low Archipelago; that Great Britainhad the Fiji, Cook, Gilbert, EUice, Phoenix, Tokelan and NewZealand groups, with northern Borneo, Tasmania, and thewhole of continental Australia, besides a large assortment ofmiscellaneous islands scattered over the world wherever theywould do the most good ; that Germany possessed the Marshallgroup and Northeast New Guinea, and divided with England ?7 O) ^^ pq a o Renewed Aggressions 175 the Solomons; that Spain had the Ladrones, the 652 islandsof the Carolines, the 1,725 more or less of the Philippines,beside some enormously valuable holdings in the West Indies;that the Dutch absolutely ruled Java, Sumatra, the greater partof Borneo, all of Celebes and the hundreds of islands eastwardto New Guinea, half of which was under the Dutch flag; thatthe new world power on the American continent took theHawaiian Islands and in two swift campaigns drove Spain outof the West Indies and the Philippines, not to return them totheir inhabitants but to keep them herself; and that in theSamoan and Friendly Islands, resident foreigners owned abouteverything worth having and left to the native chiefs only whatthe foreigners did not want or could not agree upon. As formighty Africa, the Berlin Conference of 1884 was the signalfor a game of grab on so colossal a scale that to-day out
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